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U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money". The men of the Kitty Hawk Life-Saving Station, 1900. The stations of the Service fell into three categories: lifesaving, lifeboat, and houses of refuge. Lifesaving stations were ...
The Old Harbor Station was built in 1897 by the United States Life-Saving Service. [1] The design for this station was first created by USLSS architect George R. Tolman in 1893 for a prototype station on Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. In all, the USLSS used that same design to build twenty-eight stations in the "Duluth style."
The Fletcher Lifesaving Station is located on the southeast side of the peninsula, just west of the junction of Fourth Street and Ocean Avenue. The original 1874 station is a small garage-like structure with a gable roof, 1-1/2 stories in height. Its main facade faces toward the ocean, with a large two-leaf equipment door as its main feature.
Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was the first life-saving station in the country to have an all-black crew, and it was the first in the nation to have a black man, Richard Etheridge, as commanding officer. [ 1 ]
The Life-Saving Station at Eagle Harbor was constructed in the period 1910-1912 by the United States Life-Saving Service. [2] The original station complex included the station building with a hip-roof watch tower at the corner and a two-bay boathouse that probably was located where the present structure is.
The complex was constructed as a life-saving station. It is the only remaining station which was in use during all three periods of lifesaving service history, [3] from the early volunteer period through operation by the United States Life-Saving Service and the United States Coast Guard. [4] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1998 ...
The life-saving station was added in 1903, a 2-story building with a 3-story square, pyramidal-roofed lookout tower. Part of the station was a frame boathouse. A team from the Life-Saving Service lived in this station, and conducted search and rescue operations along the Milwaukee-Kenosha coast and 40 miles (64 km) out into Lake Michigan. [2]
Monmouth Beach Life Saving Station No N/A N/A Montauk New York Montauk Point Lighthouse U.S. Lighthouse Service 1789–1939: Montauk Point Lighthouse: Yes 69000142: March 2, 2012 Mystic Connecticut Mystic Seaport Museum: U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: New Shoreham Life Saving Station [17] No N/A N/A Also: Brant Point Light replica Nahant ...