Station Little Egg, New Jersey
USLSS Station #23, Fourth District
Coast Guard Station #119
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Location:
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On Meadows, abreast of Shooting Throughfare, 2 miles northwest from Little Egg Inlet; 39-30' 05"N x 74-17' 28"W in 1878; 39-30' 10"N x 74-17' 30"W in 1915.
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Date of Conveyance:
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1876
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Station Built:
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1856 (?)
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1964
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Thomas W. Parker was appointed in 1856. It is unknown when he left the service.
Jarvis B. Rider was appointed on NOV 3, 1869 and left the service in 1915.
Jacob M. Riley (acting) was appointed in 1915 and was still serving in 1915.
F. C. Cramer was officer in charge in 1929.
Photographs:
No caption/date/photo number; photographer unknown. Probably 1930s.
Courtesy of Van Field.
"LITTLE EGG"; no date/photo number; photographer unknown. Probably early 1930s.
Courtesy of Van Field.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.