Station Nahant, Massachusetts
Coast Guard Station #24
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Location:
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On the neck, just north of Nahant, Mass.; 42-25' 45"N x 70-56' 00"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1898
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Station Built:
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1899
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1963
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Remarks:
Nahant station was built in 1889-1900 "on the neck, close to Nahant" on Short Beach between Broad Sound and Nahant Bay. The total land area is 1.04 acres and the land was acquired by an Act of Congress in 1898. The launchway was built on the site in 1939. In 1930 the notation appeared that the mailing address was "winter address: care of Winnisimmet Shipyard, Chelsea, Massachusetts."
Total capital expenditures $45,000.
FY 61 74 Assistance cases
FY 62 101 Assistance cases
FY 63 157 Assistance cases
Annual cost FY 63 $85,261
Nahant LBS was listed for disestablishment in December 1963.
Keepers:
The first keeper was Nehemiah C. Hayman, who was appointed March 16, 1900 and retired with thirty years service on December 15, 1915. Next came Frank A. Gove (reassigned from the Gurnet station on December 16, 1915 and served until he retired on January 19, 1929). The next officer in charge is shown as Chief Petty Officer R. C. Rich in 1929, having been reassigned from the Highland station. He was gone in 1935 and followed by Chief J. H. Carver.
Photography:
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.