Station Harvey Cedar, New Jersey
USLSS Station #19, Fourth District
Coast Guard Station #115
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Location:
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5-1/2 miles south of Barnegat Inlet; 39-40' 23"N x 74-08' 13"W in 1880; 39-41' 20"N x 74-08' 30"W in 1915.
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Date of Conveyance:
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1885
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Station Built:
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1849 (?)
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1950
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Remarks:
Station was moved in 1889.
Keepers:
Samuel Perrine was appointed in 1849 and left the service in 1869.
J. Warner Kinsey was appointed on NOV 3, 1869 and left the service in 1873.
Charles Martin, Jr. was appointed on MAR 15, 1876 and left the service in 1877.
Samuel Perrine reentered the service on SEP 5, 1897 and resigned on OCT 10, 1883.
John Kelly was appointed on OCT 4, 1883 and was dismissed from service on FEB 11, 1886.
Charles G. Crane was appointed on FEB 11, 1886 and was assigned to the disability roll on NOV 9, 1888.
Hudson Gaskill was appointed on JUN 12, 1888 and resigned on MAY 10, 1901
Alexander Falkenburg was appointed on MAY 10, 1901 and was still serving in 1915.
CWO (L) Thomas C. Hickman was the CO listed in 1929.
Photographs:
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.