Station Durant, North Carolina
Formerly Hatteras
USLSS Station #23, Sixth District
Coast Guard Station #185
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Location:
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On the beach abreast of Sandy Bay, about 3-1/2 miles east of Hatteras Inlet;
35° 12' 35" N x 75° 41' 10" W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1878
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Station Built:
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1879 (?)
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1939
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Remarks:
Name of station changed from Hatteras to Durant's in 1883. Referred to as Durant by 1929.
Keepers:
Zera G. Burrus was appointed keeper on 12 FEB 1879 and transferred to Station Gull Shoal on 23 SEP 1904.
Homer W. Styron was appointed keeper on 17 SEP 1904 and was still serving in 1915.
CWO (L) Edward F. Stowe was listed as the CO 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.