Station Seatack, Virginia
(later Station Virginia Beach)
USLSS Station #2, Sixth District
Coast Guard Station #162
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Location:
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At Virginia Beach, 4 5/8 miles south southeast of Cape Henry Light; 36-51' 10"N x 75-58' 40"W
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Date of Conveyance
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1878
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Station Built:
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1878
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Fate:
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Name changed to Virginia Beach Station
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Remarks:
None.
Keepers:
Edward Drinkwater was appointed keeper on 6 MAR 1879 and was dismissed on 28 JAN 1886.
Joseph T. King was appointed keeper on 30 AUG 1886 and was discharged on 31 DEC 1887.
Edward Drinkwater was appointed keeper on 21 FEB 1888 and resigned 2 JUN 1891.
William A. Payne was appointed keeper on 20 MAY 1891 and resigned 16 JUN 1900.
John W. Partridge was appointed keeper on 20 FEB 1900 and transferred to Station Little Island on 31 OCT 1907.
Edgar Chadwick was appointed keeper on 22 OCT 1907 and left in 1915.
Thomas J. Barnes was appointed keeper in 1915.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.