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Crew and Motor Life Boat Dreadnaught, Point Adams Life-Saving Station, Oregon
Official USCG Seal, circa 1943
Station Grand Marais, Michigan
Coast Guard Station #296
Location:
West side entrance to Grand Marais Harbor, 1/3 mile south of Grand Marais Harbor of Refuge Outer Light;
Date of Conveyance
1897
Station Built:
1899
Fate:
Still in operation
Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Benjamin Truedell was appointed keeper on 3 MAR 1900 and was still serving in 1915.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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: CostaƱo 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.