Station North Beach, Maryland
Coast Guard Station #147
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Location:
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On beach at north end of Chincoteague Bay, 8-1/8 miles south southwest of entrance to Sinepuxent Bay; 10 miles south of Ocean City; 38° 11' 30" N x 75° 09' 20" W
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Date of Conveyance:
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1883
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Station Built:
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1883
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1970
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Adelbert Soper was appointed keeper on 18 MAR 1884 and transferred to the Ocean City Station on 20 FEB 1890.
John A. J. Hudson was appointed keeper on 20 FEB 1890 and died on 12 JUL 1909.
Joel R. Gordy was appointed keeper on 26 JUL 1909 and transferred to Green Run Inlet on 26 OCT 1909.
Borden S. Powell was appointed keeper on 12 OCT 1909 and resigned for physical reasons on 30 APR 1912.
William S. Purnell was appointed keeper on 27 APR 1912 and was still serving in 1915.
Photographs:
Station North Beach, no date/caption/photo number;
photographer unknown.
"NORTH BEACH"; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Courtesy of Van Field.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.