Station Long Beach, New Jersey
USLSS Station #21, Fourth District
Coast Guard Station #117
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Location:
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On Long Beach, 7 miles east by north of Tuckerton radio tower, and 12 miles south southwest of Barnegat Light; 39-35' 03"N x 74-13' 03"W in 1880' 39-35' 00"N x 74-13' 20"W in 1915.
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Date of Conveyance:
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1900
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Station Built:
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1849
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1946
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Remarks:
Station originally established in 1847. In 1872, station was permanently located on a piece of land not then owned or leased to the U.S. 1900 land was acquired.
Keepers:
William H. Crane was appointed keeper on 22 NOV 1872 and left in 1876 (?)
George Sprague was appointed keeper on 6 FEB 1877 and resigned on 2 SEP 1881.
James Sprague was appointed keeper on 13 SEP 1881 and resigned on 12 AUG 1912.
George Mathis (G) was appointed keeper on 8 JAN 1902 and died on 12 APR 1912.
Frank M. Sprague was appointed keeper on 1 JUN 1912 and was still serving in 1915.
Photographs:
No caption/date/photo number; photographer unknown. Probably 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.