Station Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wisconsin
Coast Guard Station #288
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Location:
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On north side of easterly entrance of Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Canal, abreast Sturgeon Bay Canal Light;
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Date of Conveyance
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1883
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Station Built:
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1885
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Fate:
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Still in operation
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
William Nequette was appointed keeper on 28 APR 1886 and transferred to Station Sheboygan on 27 JUL 1889.
Joseph Dionne was appointed keeper on 27 JUL 1889 and transferred to Station Two Rivers on 3 JUN 1892.
Telesfford Boutin was appointed keeper on 3 JUN 1892 and transferred to Station Milwaukee on 10 SEP 1894.
Carl Anderson was appointed keeper on 4 OCT 1894 resigned on 5 DEC 1910.
John P. Whelau was appointed keeper on 15 NOV 1910 and resigned on 19 AUG 1912.
George C. Robinson was appointed keeper on 12 SEP 1912 and left in 1915.
George H. Gatfield was appointed keeper in 1915.
Boatswain (L) Robert Anderson was attached to the station in 1922.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.