Station Meadow Island, New York
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Location:
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Entrance to Jones Inlet
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Date of Conveyance
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1872?
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Station Built:
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1882
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Meadow Island:
This station is listed in 1878 with a position of "entrance to Jones Inlet." The number for this station was listed with the notation "discontinued" in 1882. The only known keeper was Leander Lozee, who was appointed at the age of 30 on December 9, 1872. He had experience as a wrecker.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.