Station Cape Disappointment, Washington
USLSS Station #3, Twelfth District
Coast Guard Station #327
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Location:
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On Cape Disappointment at Fort Canby, north side mouth Columbia River, 3/8 mile north of Cape Disappointment Light; 46-16' 40"N x 124-03' 00"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1877
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Station Built:
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1877
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Fate:
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Still in operation.
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Remarks:
Coast Guard Lifeboat Station Cape Disappointment is located in Fort Canby Army Reservation south-southwest of the town of Ilwaco, Pacific County, Washington. The station has been established in 1880 and was originally built on piles in the bay. It was moved to its present site in Fort Canby in 1920.
Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment is the host command for the Coast Guard's National Motor Lifeboat School.
Keepers:
JAN 1878 – OCT 1880 Stephen Davis
OCT 1880 – MAR 1887 Alfred T. Harris
MAR 1887 – OCT 1887 John W. Walker
OCT 1887 – MAY 1893 Alfred T. Harris
MAY 1893 – AUG 1912 Charles D. Stuart
AUG 1912 – 1929 Alfred Rimer
1929 – 1932 Leslie V. Barnett
1932 – 1933 BM1 George Kistemaker
1933 – 1935 BMC Nils Neilsson
1935 – 1939 BMC Lee Woodworth
1939 – 1941 BMC F.E. Barnett
1941 – 1941 BMC Lee Woodworth
1941 – 1943 BMC James E. Carlton
1943 – 1945 BMC Jesse W. Mathews
1945 – 1947 BMC Fred H. Gold
1947 - BMC Floyd M. Hecox
JUN 1952 BMC Willard F. Peters
JUN 1952 – OCT 1953 BMC Arthur R. Henderlie
OCT 1953 -- BMC Peter Lindquist
OCT 1955 BMC Edward G. Mackey
OCT 1955 – JUN 1956 BMC Albert L. Olsen jr.
JUN 1956 – NOV 1957 BM1 Bruce D. Murphy
NOV 1957 – APR 1963 BMC Doyle S. Porter
APR 1963 -- BMC Thomas D. Adams
1966 BMC Jack W. Wood
1966 – 1968 CWO Stanley W. Mead
1968 – AUG 1971 LT Joseph E. Tamalonis
AUG 1971 – MAR 1975 LT Stanley W. Mead
MAR 1975 – AUG 1977 LCDR James T. Cushman
AUG 1977 – JUL 1979 LT Gordon J. Lawrence
JUL 1979 – APR 1982 LCDR John L. Sprague III
APR 1982 – JUN 1986 LCDR Michael D. Slovek
JUN 1986 – JUL 1989 LT Michael E. Monteith
JUL 1989 – JUN 1992 LCDR Daniel A. Neptune
JUN 1992 – JUN 1995 LT Gregory W. Blandford
JUN 1995 – JUL 1998 LT Michael F. White jr.
JUL 1998 -- LT Daniel C. Johnson
Sources:
Annette Hay, USCG.
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.