Station Southside, California
Coast Guard Station #308
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Location:
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3-3/8 miles south of Golden Gate Life-Saving Station; 37-43' 18"N x 122-30' 18"W; 4-1/2 miles south of Point Lobos
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Date of Conveyance
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1891
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Station Built:
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1893 (?)
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Fate:
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Station reverted back to Department of War in 1945.
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Keepers:
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Henry Smith was appointed keeper on 13 JAN 1894 and transferred to Arena Cove on 13 SEP 1902.
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John G. Gronbeck was appointed keeper on 13 September 1902 and was still serving in 1929 although the station was listed as "Discontinued as an active unit" in the 1929 Annual Report.
Remarks:
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.