Station Currituck Inlet, North Carolina
Also known as Old Currituck Inlet
USLSS Station #7, Sixth District
Coast Guard Station #168
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Location:
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At Whale Head Hill, 3/8 mile southeast of Currituck Beach Light; 36-27' 30"N x 75-50' 40"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1878
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Station Built:
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1874
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1950
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Remarks:
Name changed to Penny's Hill.
Keepers:
John R. Gale was appointed on DEC 11, 1874 and left the service in 1876.
John G. Chappell was appointed on MAR 18, 1876 and left the service in 1877.
Daniel M. Etheridge was appointed on DEC 30, 1879 and was discharged on MAR 31, 1888.
Thomas J. Tillett was appointed on APR 23, 1888 and resigned for physical reasons on OCT 2, 1912.
Humphreys Lewark was appointed on SEP 21, 1912 and was still serving in 1915
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.