Station Corson Inlet, New Jersey
USLSS Station #32, Fourth District
Coast Guard Station #128
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Location:
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On Ludlan Beach, at Strathmere, New Jersey, 2-1/8 miles northeast by north of the Ludlam Beach Light and 7/8 mile southwest of Corson Inlet; 39° 12’ 59” N x 74° 38’ 06” W in 1878; 39° 13’ 10” N x 74° 38’ 20”W in 1915
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Date of Conveyance
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1855
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Station Built:
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1849
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Fate:
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Discontinued, 1964
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Remarks:
The original station built in 1855 was an 1855-Type station. That station was replaced in 1872 by a 1871 Red House-Type station
Keepers:
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Richard Stiles was appointed Keeper in 1856. It is not known when he left.
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Sylvanus Corson was appointed Keeper on 17 January 1862 and was discharged on 3 November 1883.
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Charles D. Stephens was appointed Keeper on 10 November 1883 and resigned on 23 October 1897.
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Reuben S. Godfrey was appointed Keeper on 6 November 1897 and resigned for physical reasons on 2 February 1908.
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Cornelius L. Nickerson was appointed Keeper on 29 January 1908 and was still in service when the USLSS merged with the USRCS in 1915.
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CBM (L) Edward Norton was OIC in 1929.
Photographs:
"CORSON INLET"; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Courtesy of Van Field.
“Corson Inlet”; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Courtesy of Van Field
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.