Station Cedar Creek, New Jersey
Coast Guard Station #111
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Location:
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5-3/8 miles north of Barnegat Inlet; 39-51' 10"N x 74-05' 10"W
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Date of Conveyance
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Unknown
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Station Built:
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1872
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Fate:
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Discontinued by 1939
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Remarks:
The 1929 Register listed Station Cedar Creek as having been "Discontinued as an active unit."
Keepers:
John A. Allen was appointed in 1856. It is unknown when he left the service.
David D. Herring was appointed on OCT 7, 1868. He left the service in 1876.
Redin N. Penn was appointed on MAR 3, 1877 and dismissed from service on JAN 17, 1894.
Alexander Brinley was appointed on JAN 29, 1894 and left the service on APR 16, 1903 due to physical disability.
Oscar Brinley was appointed on APR 10, 1903 and died in service on JUL 7, 1907.
David B. Bowen was appointed on AUG 26, 1907 and was transferred to Toms River on JUL 15, 1910.
Henry Ware was appointed on JUL1, 1910 and was still serving in 1915.
Chas. E. McCoy was listed as the OIC in 1929.
Photographs:
Photo courtesy of Ron Wilkins; his grandfather, Harold Wilkins, was stationed at Cedar Creek in 1912.
Photo courtesy of Ron Wilkins; his grandfather, Harold Wilkins, was stationed at Cedar Creek in 1912.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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, 1929. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1929.
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.