Station Sandy Point, Connecticut
Coast Guard Station #60
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Location:
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Block Island, north side, near light; 41-13' 40"N x 71-34' 40"W
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Date of Conveyance
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None
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Station Built:
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1898 (?)
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1922
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Remarks:
Station occupied land by permission from the Lighthouse Service. This station was built in 1898 and placed in operation in 1899--a keeper, Edward P. Sisson, was appointed on November 29, 1898 and served until October 10, 1904 when he was reassigned to the Fishers Island station. The original position was listed as "on Block Island, north end, near light." After Sisson, the keepers were Simon R. Sands (appointed October 6, 1904 and served until appointed as Assistant to the District Superintendent in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on July 22, 1915), John E. Tourgee (acting until appointed January 20, 1916 and reassigned to the Bay Shore station on February 9, 1919), Oswald A Littlefield (acting until his appointment and then immediately reassigned to the Watch Hill station on July 12, 1919), and Clarence E. Peckham (acting until his appointment on May 18, 1920 and then reassigned to the Fishers Island station). The position was vacant and the station was discontinued in 1922. Nevertheless, Amos P. Tefft was reassigned from Point Judith on June 24, 1922 and served until he retired on December 27, 1927. The station was listed as discontinued in 1922, was back in 1925, and disappeared from the listings in 1928.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.