Station Core Bank, North Carolina
Coast Guard Station #189
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Location:
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On Core Bank, opposite Hunting Quarters, about halfway between Ocracoke Inlet and Cape Lookout; 34-51' 30"N x 76-18' 30"W
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Date of Conveyance
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1894
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Station Built:
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Unknown
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1965
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Alexander Moore was appointed keeper on 3 JAN 1896 and transferred to Station Boge Inlet on 30 SEP 1904.
William T. WIllis was appointed keeper on 17 SEP 1904 and transferred to Station Cape Lookout on 19 APR 1912.
Henry D. Goodwin was appointed keeper on 10 APR 1912 and was still serving in 1915.
CBM (L) I. N. Baum was OIC in 1929.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.