Station Lake View Beach, Michigan
Coast Guard Station #246
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Location:
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5 miles north of Fort Gratiot Light
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Date of Conveyance:
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1897
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Station Built:
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1898
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1946
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
George W. Plough was appointed keeper on 11 February 1898 and left in 1915.
James Scott was appointed keeper in 1915.
CWO (L) John H. Oles was listed as the CO in 1929.
Lakeview Beach Station, circa 1929. Courtesy of Roger Will, son of surfman Melvin Will, who was assigned to the station in the late 1920s.
The rear of the Lakeview Beach Station, circa 1929. Courtesy of Roger Will, son of surfman Melvin Will, who was assigned to the station in the late 1920s.
Surfman Melvin Will, circa 1929. Courtesy of Roger Will, son of surfman Melvin Will, who was assigned to the station in the late 1920s.
Surfman Melvin Will, circa 1929. Courtesy of Roger Will, son of surfman Melvin Will, who was assigned to the station in the late 1920s.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.