Station False Cape, Virginia
USLSS Station #5, Sixth District
Coast Guard Station #165
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Location:
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On beach abreast of Back Bay; 36-36' 00"N x 75-52' 50"W in 1915
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Date of Conveyance:
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1881
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Station Built:
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Unknown
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1946
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Daniel P. Morris was appointed keeper on 11 DEC 1874 and left in 1876 (?)
Gustavus A. Stgron was appointed keeper on 9 FEB 1877 and left in 1877.
Jonathan L. Bareo was appointed keeper on 30 DEC 1879 and resigned on 30 AUG 1881.
Michael O'Neal was appointed keeper on 20 AUG 1881 and resigned on 3 OCT 1882.
William A. Payne was appointed keeper on 21 SEP 1882 and transferred to Station Little Island on 13 JAN 1887.
William H. O'Neal was appointed keeper on 11 MAR 1887 and died on 8 JUL 1910.
Thomas H. Delon was appointed keeper on 15 AUG 1910 and was still serving in 1915.
CWO (L) Roy V. Dudley was 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.