Station Surfside, Massachusetts
USLSS Station #15, Second District
Coast Guard Station #46
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Location:
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2 1/2 miles south of the town of Nantucket; 41-14' 33:N x 70-08' 36"W in 1878; 41-14' 30"N x 70-06' 00"W in 1915.
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Date of Conveyance
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1873 (?)
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Station Built:
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1874 (?)
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1921
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Surfside (#46):
Surfside station is believed to have been built in 1874 "two and one-half miles south of the town of Nantucket." "Necessary repairs and improvements" were made on the station in 1893 because the station buildings "were old structures, much out of repair, and also in need of enlargement in order to conveniently accommodate the crews and apparatus." The station was discontinued in 1921.
Keepers:
The first keeper was Joseph Winslow, who was appointed at the age of 52, with 35 years’ experience as a surfman, on October 15, 1874, and served until his resignation on September 1, 1881. He was followed by George A. Needer (August 26, 1881 until his resignation on November 14, 1891), Eugene W. Clisby (November 14, 1891 until his retirement at age 64 with more than thirty years service on March 23, 1915), and Albert Rohdin (reassigned from the Muskeget station on April 7, 1915 and reassigned to the Coskata station on July 6, 1921).
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.