Station Fairport, Ohio
USLSS Station #7, Ninth District
Coast Guard Station #238
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Location:
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West side entrance to Fairport Harbor, 11/16 mile south of Fairport West Breakwater Light
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Date of Conveyance:
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1875
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Station Built:
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1876
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Fate:
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Still in operation as of 2004
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
George F. Babcock was appointed keeper on 26 September 1876 and died on 28 December 1898.
Niels M. Rasmussen 17 February 1899 and was still serving in 1915.
Photographs:
Original Station Fairport. No photo number or caption; date/photographer unknown.
Coast Guard Small Boat Station Fairport.
No photo number or caption; date/photographer unknown.
Original caption: "Station Fairport Harbor crewmembers patrol the waters of Lake Erie aboard the station's 47-foot response boat August 27, 2004."; Coast Guard photo by PA3 Allyson E. Taylor.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.