Station Racine, Wisconsin
USLSS Station #14, Eleventh District
Coast Guard Station #283
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Location:
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On north side entrance to Root River Racine Harbor, near inner end of north pier, 3/8 mile west of Racine North Breakwater Light;
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Date of Conveyance:
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1875
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Station Built:
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1875
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Fate:
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Decommissioned in 1971
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Remarks:
A new site was acquired in 1900.
Keepers:
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James Eason was appointed keeper in 1876 and left in 1877 (?)
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John Sandburg was appointed keeper on 23 MAY 1877 and resigned on 21 NOV 1884.
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William Jones was appointed keeper on 2 APR 1885 and drowned on 22 SEP 1885.
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John Lysaght was appointed keeper on 19 MAR 1886 and transferred to Grand Point Au Sable on 9 JUL 1885.
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George Breckerfield was appointed keeper on 9 JUL 1888 and resigned on 20 NOV 1903.
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Gus B. Lofberg was appointed keeper on 4 NOV 1903 and left in 1914.
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Olaf Egeland was appointed keeper in 1914 and resigned in 1915.
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John A. Olander was appointed as acting keeper in 1915.
Photographs:
Original caption reads: “Racine Sta. South side, Station #294"; notation on back notes that this post card image was received by the USCG Superintendent of Construction & Repair on 19 September 1916.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.