Station Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
USLSS Station #2, Fifth District
Coast Guard Station #141
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Location:
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On beach, abreast north end of Rehoboth Bay, 6-3/8 miles south by east of the Delaware Breakwater Light.
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Date of Conveyance:
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Unknown
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Station Built:
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1878
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1921
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Remarks:
The station still exists as a private residence in Shipcarpenter Square in Lewes, Delaware.
Keepers:
Thos. J. Truxton was appointed keeper on 10 December 1878 and died on 14 July 1896.
Thomas W. Steel was appointed keeper on 6 August 1896 and died on 10 April 1912.
Fred G. Vogel was appointed keeper on 27 April 1912 and was still serving in 1915.
Photography:
The Rehoboth Beach Life-Saving Station and crew, circa 1880.
Courtesy of the Lewes Historical Society.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Lewes Historical Society
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.