Station South Manitou Island
Coast Guard Station #260
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Location:
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Near southeast end of South Manitou Island, abreast south side of Manitou Harbor, 3/16 mile north of South Manitou Light; Lake Michigan.
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Date of Conveyance
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1900
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Station Built:
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1901
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1962.
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Remarks: None.
Keepers:
Gus B. Lofberg was appointed keeper on 12 FEB 1902 and transferred to Station Racine on 4 NOV 1903.
Jacob Van Weilden was appointed keeper on 4 NOV 1903 and transferred to Station Holland on 30 JAN 1907.
Eli E. Pugh was appointed keeper on 11 JAN 1907 and transferred to Station Charlevoix on 24 AUG 1910.
Allen A. Kent was appointed keeper on 1 AUG 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.