Station Bethany Beach, Delaware
USLSS Station #2, Fifth District
Coast Guard Station #143
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Location:
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6-5/8 miles north of Fenwick Light; 38-33' 00"N x 75-03- 30"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1905
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Station Built:
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1907
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1945
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Remarks:
The 1929 Register lists the station as "Discontinued as an active unit."
Keepers:
Washington A. Vickers was appointed keeper on 31 JUL 1907 and left in 1915.
George P. Hickman was appointed keeper in 1915.
Warrant Officer John T. Dukes was listed as OIC in 1929.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.