Station Wildwood, New Jersey
(formerly Station Holly Beach)
Coast Guard Station #134
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Location:
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On Five Mile Beach at Wildwood, 2-1/2 miles southwest of the Hereford Inlet Light.
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Date of Conveyance:
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??
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Station Built:
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1849
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Fate:
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Holly Beach / Wildwood (#134):
In 1899 Holly Beach Station became Wildwood Station.
Keepers:
Elijah Hand Jr. was first appointed on DEC 2, 1877 and was dismissed on DEC 18, 1882.
Frank Downs was appointed on JAN 2, 1883 and left service in 1915.
Henry S. Ludlam was appointed in 1915 and was still serving in 1915.
CBM (L) N. W. Sutton was the OIC in 1929.
Photographs:
“Wildwood Station”; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Courtesy of Van R. Field.
“Wildwood”; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Courtesy of Van R. Field.
“Wildwood”; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Courtesy of Van R. Field.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.