Station Cape Fear, North Carolina
USLSS Station #25, Sixth District
Coast Guard Station #193
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Location:
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On Smith's Island, Cape Fear; 33-50' 40"N x 77-57' 30"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1881
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Station Built:
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1881
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Fate:
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Station was discontinued in 1941.
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Dunbar Davis was appointed keeper on 27 JAN 1882 and transferred to Station Oak Island on 22 JUL 1891.
John L. Watts was appointed keeper on 22 JUL 1891 and died 3 AUG 1911.
Samuel Brinkman was appointed keeper on 25 AUG 1911 and was still serving in 1915.
Warrant Boatswain (L) W. H. Barnett was listed as the commanding officer 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.