Station Cape Cod Canal
Coast Guard Station # 32
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Location:
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On south side, eastern entrance of Cape Cod Canal.
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Date of Conveyance:
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1919
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Station Built:
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1936
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Fate:
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Still in service.
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Cape Cod Canal:
Mention of this station is first made in 1919 that an auxiliary boathouse had been constructed at the eastern entrance to the Cape Cod Canal as an auxiliary to the Manomet Point station.
The station as an independent unit is first listed in 1936 and according to the Register of Officers (1941) the new station buildings were constructed in 1936. The first commanding officer was Ralph C. Rich, newly commissioned and appointed on August 10, 1936. This station assumed the identification number "32," causing all subsequent numbers to increase by one. The station was probably an outgrowth of the note for Gurnet station. It is still an active station.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.
Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.
U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.