Station Point Bonita, California
Coast Guard Station #311
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Location:
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At Point Bonita, California, north side of the Golden Gate, 3/8 mile northeast of Bonita Point Light.
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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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Abandoned in 1947
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Remarks:
A 27 May 1947 Coast Guard memo from the Commander of the Twelfth District to Commandant (OSU) noted that the lifeboat and surfboat allowance at Fort Point Lifeboat Station needed to be increased due to: “(a) The abandonment of Point Bonita as a lifeboat station and the placing of Bolinas Bay Lifeboat Station in a caretaker status has considerably broadened the potential distress demands on Fort Point Lifeboat Station.”
Keepers:
John S. Clark; appointed 17 October 1901; date left: 1914
Joseph L. Nutter; appointed 1915; 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.