Station Fenwick Island, Delaware
Coast Guard Station #144
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Location:
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1 1/2 miles north of the Fenwick Island Light; 38-28' 20"N x 75-03' 00"W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1889
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Station Built:
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1891
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1957
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Stratton Schellinger was appointed Keeper on 19 October 1891 and was removed on 22 December 1893.
John H. Long was appointed Keeper on 27 December 1893 and resigned on 11 April 1904.
John S. Pruitt was appointed Keeper on 7 April 1904 and was still serving in 1915.
John Hudson was listed as Keeper in 1917.
CBM (L) T. T. Moore was listed as the OIC in 1929.
Photography:
“Fenwick Island #144”; 14 August 1914; photo by “PGH”
“Station No. 144, Fenwick Id. Stn. Rear end of Sta. & oil [?] house & meat house. John Hudson Keeper”; 19 January 1917; photographer not listed.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.