Station Sturgeon Point, Michigan
USLSS Station #5, Tenth District
Coast Guard Station #251
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Location:
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On Sturgeon Point, at Sturgeon Point Light; Lake Huron
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Date of Conveyance
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1875
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Station Built:
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1875
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1960
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Remarks: None.
Keepers:
Perley Silverthorn was appointed keeper on 7 SEP 1876 and was removed on 12 OCT 1880.
Hilliard S. Broadwell was appointed keeper on 11 OCT 1880 and resigned on 1 MAR 1884.
Eugene P. Motley was appointed keeper on 18 FEB 1884 and was dismissed on 21 SEP 1885.
James E. Henderson was appointed keeper on 3 OCT 1885 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.