Station Turtle Gut, New Jersey
USLSS Station #37, Fourth District
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Location:
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4 miles northeast of Cape May City; 38-57' 10"N x 74-51' 10"W
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Date of Conveyance
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1855
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Station Built:
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Unknown
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1925 (?)
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Eli Barnett was appointed on NOV 22, 1872 and left the service in 1877.
Uriah Cresse was appointed on AUG 19, 1879 and left the service in 1915.
Joseph F. Springer (acting) was appointed in 1915 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.