Station Golden Gate Park, California
USLSS Station #7, Twelfth District
Coast Guard Station #309
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Location:
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On beach in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (1881); Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, south side Golden Gate, 3/4 mile south of Point Lobos and 2-7/8 miles south southeast of Bonita Light; 37-46' 10"N x 122-30' 30"W (1941)
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Date of Conveyance:
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1877
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Station Built:
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1877
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1951
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
James M. Tracy was appointed keeper on 2 AUG 1878 and resigned on 22 OCT 1880.
Henry Bohn was appointed keeper on 8 NOV 1880 and resigned on an unknown date.
Thomas Hollahan was appointed keeper on 2 APR 1883 and resigned on 26 JUN 1883.
Henry A. Ellis was appointed keeper on 28 JUN 1883 and resigned on 20 OCT 1883.
John A. C. Brumstamp was appointed keeper on 1 NOV 1883 and resigned on 15 NOV 1886 due to ill-health.
Claus F. Kroger was appointed keeper on 18 NOV 1886 and resigned on 30 JUN 1890.
Thomas J. Hollahan was appointed keeper on 19 JUN 1890 and resigned on 23 NOV 1891.
Henry Smith was appointed keeper on 14 JAN 1892 and transferred to the South Side Station on 1 FEB 1894.
Henry E. Morton was appointed keeper on 10 FEB 1894 and "discontinued services" on 24 JUL 1896.
George H. Varney was appointed keeper on 17 JUL 1896 and was promoted to superintendent on 31 OCT 1907.
Norman Nelson was appointed keeper on 17 DEC 1907 and was still serving in 1915.
CWO (L) Theodore Roberge was listed as the CO 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.