Station Portsmouth, North Carolina
Coast Guard Station #188
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Location:
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At Portsmouth, N.C., on northeast end of Portsmouth Island, 4 1/4 miles southwest by west of Ocracoke Light; 35-04' 00"N x 76-03' 05"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1893
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Station Built:
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1894
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Fate:
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Turned over to the War Assets Administration in 1946
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Ferdinand G. Terrell was appointed keeper on on 15 AUG 1894 and resigned on 8 OCT 1903.
Charles S. McWilliams was appointed keeper on 16 NOV 1903 and was still serving in 1915.
Photography:
None.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.