Station Saint Joseph, Michigan
USLSS Station #10, Eleventh District
Coast Guard Station #273
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Location:
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North side entrance to St. Joseph River, 7/16 miles east southeast of Pierhead Rear Light; Lake Michigan
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Date of Conveyance:
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1874
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Station Built:
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1874
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Fate:
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Still in operation
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
J. A. Napier was appointed keeper on 11 JUL 1876 and left in 1879 (?)
William L. Stevens was appointed keeper on 30 OCT 1879 and left in 1915.
John G. Sammet was appointed keeper in 1915.
Photographs:
Post card image of the Saint Joseph Life-Boat Station, Michigan, circa 1890. Original caption reads: “Waiting for the call St. Joseph Mich”
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.