Station Nags Head, North Carolina
USLSS Station #14, Sixth District
Coast Guard Station #174
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Location:
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On beach, 1 1/8 miles south of Nags Head, N.C., and 7 1/4 miles north northwest of Bodie Island Light; 35-56' 00"N x 75-36' 40"W in 1915
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Date of Conveyance:
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1874
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Station Built:
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1874
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1957
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Remarks:
Property transferred to Department of the Army in 1961.
Keepers:
John W. Evans was appointed on DEC 4, 1874 and left the service in 1875.
M. W. Etheridge was appointed on NOV 9, 1875 and left the service in 1877.
B. F. Meekins was appointed on JUN 20, 1877 and resigned on AUG 20, 1991.
Van Buren Etheridge was appointed on AUG 20, 1881 and left the service in 1915.
Eugene H. Peel was appointed in 1915 and was still serving in 1915.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.