Station Bodie Island, North Carolina
USLSS Station #16, Sixth District
Coast Guard Station #175
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Location:
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On Bodie Island, N.C., 1 1/8 miles north by east of Bodie Island Light; 35-47' 30"N x 75-32' 00"W in 1878; 35-49' 40"N x 75-33' 20"W in 1915
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Date of Conveyance:
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1878
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Station Built:
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1878
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Fate:
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Transferred from U.S. Coast Guard to N.P.S., U.S. Department of Interior in 1953
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Remarks:
Also referred to as Bodie's Island.
Keepers:
Edward Drinkwater was first appointed on DEC 4, 1874 and left the service in 1877.
Jesse T. Etheridge was appointed on DEC 9, 1878 and left the service in 1915.
Robert L. Wescott (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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.