Station Pointe Aux Barques, Michigan
USLSS Station #2, Tenth District
Coast Guard Station # 248
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Location:
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1/8 mile southeast of Point aux Barques Light, Lake Huron
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Date of Conveyance:
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1875
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Station Built:
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1875
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Fate:
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Turned over to the GSA in 1956
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Remarks: None.
Keepers:
J. H. Crouch was appointed keeper in 1876 and left in 1877 (?)
Charles E. McDonald was appointed keeper on 12 March 1887 and left in 1880 (?)
Jerome G. Kiah was the keeper in 1880. He was the only survivor of his entire station crew after they launched their lifeboat to effect a rescue of a vessel in distress during a storm on 23 April 1880.
Henry Gill, Jr. was appointed keeper on 9 June 1880 and transferred to [District] Station No. 3 on 28 September 1881.
Quinton Morgan was appointed keeper on 28 September 1881 and resigned on 14 September 1883.
Henry D. Ferris was appointed keeper on 22 September 1883 and transferred to Station Sand Beach on 11 February 1898.
John H. Frahm was appointed keeper on 11 February 1898 and was still serving in 1915.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Debbie Allyn Jett. “Tales from the Keeper’s Log: Life and Life-Saving at a Life-Saving Station [Point Aux Barques]: Part 1”; “Part 2.” On-line at: www.uscg.mil/history/articles/TalesFromTheKeepersLog.pdf
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.