Station Rocky Point, New York
Coast Guard Station #95
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Location:
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At Rocky Point, on north shore of Long Island, 5 3/8 miles northeast by east of Horton Point Light; 41-08' 20"N x 72-21' 10"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1895
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Station Built:
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1896
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1946
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Remarks:
The Rocky Point station was completed and "manned for duty" in 1896 "near Rocky Point, Long Island Sound, about four miles northerly from Greenport." The station was discontinued and disappears from the records in 1929. Nevertheless, approximately $128,000 was provided in the Work Relief and Public Works Appropriation Act of 1938 for "combination station dwelling, boathouse, launchway and flag tower" as well as an equipment building and additional funds were provided for a "L-type wharf, dredging, bulkheading, etc." By this time, the site was used as a rifle range.
The site was abandoned in 1946.
Keepers:
The keepers were: William H. Reinhart (appointed October 23,1896 until his reassignment to the Rockaway station March 10, 1897), Harvey S. Brown (appointed April 28, 1897 until his retirement at age 64 on June 25, 1919), Earl W. Suydam (reassigned July 7, 1919 from the Office of the Third District Superintendent until his reassignment to the Point of Woods station October 15, 1925), and Chief Petty Officer W. Raynor who served until 1928.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.