Station Hither Plain, New York
USLSS Station #8, Third District
Coast Guard Station #66
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Location:
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On ocean side of Long Island, 5 1/2 miles west southwest of Montauk Point Light
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Date of Conveyance:
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1855
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Station Built:
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1871
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1948
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Remarks:
This station was built in 1871 at a position originally given as one-half mile south of Ford Pond." The station was again listed as inactive in 1934 and remained so until World War II. The site was abandoned in 1948.
Keepers:
The original keeper was George H. Osborne, who was appointed at the age of 40 on December 9, 1872 and removed on September 14, 1881. He was followed by George E. Filer who was appointed September 14, 1881 and resigned November 16, 1891. Then came William D. Parsons (January 25, 1892 until reassignment to Napeague station August 1, 1917), Hiram F. King (appointed August 1, 1917 until reassignment as Assistant to the Superintendent of the Fourth District on December 9, 1920). Thereafter, the keeper position was vacant and, in 1922, the station is listed as "discontinued as an active unit." The station is back as an active unit in 1925 but a keeper was not assigned until 1928 when Chief Boatswains Mate J. R. Harlow arrived.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.