Station Big Sandy, New York
Later Sacketts Harbor
USLSS Station #1, Ninth District
Coast Guard Station #231
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Location:
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North side of Big Sandy Creek, Lake Ontario, 9-1/2 miles south of Stoney Point Light
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Date of Conveyance:
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1874
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Station Built:
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Unknown
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Fate:
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Later renamed as Sacketts Harbor
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
William E. Van Alstine was appointed keeper on 4 APR 1877 and resigned on 1 SEP 1881.
William Fish was appointed keeper on 24 AUG 1881 and resigned on 5 MAR 1900.
William Hagedon was appointed keeper on 24 MAR 1900 and was still serving in 1915.
CBM (L) P. W. Tifft was the OIC in 1929.
Photographs:
“Big Sandy 1906”; no photo number; photographer unknown.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.