Station Pentwater, Michigan
Coast Guard Station # 267
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Location:
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North side entrance of Pentwater Harbor, 1/4 mile east of Pentwater Pierhead Light; Lake Michigan
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Date of Conveyance
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1884
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Station Built:
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1886
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1965
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Remarks: None.
Keepers:
Martin Ewald was appointed keeper on 17 NOV 1886 and resigned on 24 MAR 1913.
Telesford St. Peter was appointed keeper on 6 FEB 1913 and left in 1915.
William Robinson was appointed keeper 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.