Station Nome, Alaska
Coast Guard Station #335
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Location:
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At Nome, Alaska; 64-30' 00"N x 165-23' 00"W
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Date of Conveyance
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1905
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Station Built:
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1905
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1949
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Remarks:
Owing to the urgent demand for services of a life-saving crew, a vacant building on the government reservation there was turned over to the service.
Keepers:
Thomas A. Ross was appointed keeper on 15 APR 1907 and served in that capacity until retiring on FEB 1 1939.
Photography:
Life-Saving Station, Nome, Alaska, July, 1906
Nome’s crew
USRC Bear off Nome, no date.
U.S. Coast Guard Station Nome, Alaska.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.