Station Middle Island, Michigan
Coast Guard Station #253
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Location:
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North end of Middle Island, Lake Huron
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Date of Conveyance:
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1879
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Station Built:
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Unknown
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1958
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Remarks: None
Keepers:
Donald McKenzie was appointed keeper on 28 SEP 1881 and transferred to Station Duluth on 26 MAR 1895.
Murdock H. McLennan was appointed keeper on 26 MAR 1895 and transferred to Station Duluth on 9 SEP 1898.
Eugene P. Motley was appointed keeper on 9 SEP 1898 and was still serving in 1915.
CWO (L) William E. Crapo was listed as the OIC 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.