Station San Luis, Texas
Coast Guard Station #218
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Location:
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Near southwest end of Galveston Island, 2 3/4 miles southwest of San Luis Pass entrance to West Bay.
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Date of Conveyance
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1879
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Station Built:
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1879
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Fate:
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Station was destroyed in a hurricane; site was abandoned in 1950.
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
J.R. Van Liew was appointed keeper on 7 OCT 1880 and resigned on 5 MAY 1881.
Lawrence Sorenson was appointed keeper on 15 JUN 1881 and resigned on 30 NOV 1881.
George Steffen was appointed as acting keeper on 1 DEC 1881 and mustered out at expiration of the season.
Johann Bottjer was appointed acting keeper on 30 APR 1882 and was discharged.
Charles A. Stackpole was appointed keeper on 5 SEP 1882 and was dismissed on 19 JAN 1883.
Jamie A. O'Brien was appointed keeper on 19 JAN 1883 and resigned on 1 OCT 1883.
Chauncey C. Coxe was appointed keeper on 26 SEP 1883 and resigned on 3 NOV 1886.
Henry G. Jones was appointed keeper on 7 DEC 1886 and resigned on 13 SEP 1888.
Thomas W. Norman was appointed keeper on 24 NOV 1888 and resigned on 16 DEC 1889.
Johann Bottjer was appointed keeper on 30 DEC 1889 and resigned for physical reasons on 28 JAN 1906.
John Hangland was appointed keeper on 15 JAN 1906 and was dismissed on 31 MAR 1910.
Charles H. Corbel was appointed keeper on 9 JUN 1910 and was 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.