Station Tatham's, New Jersey
(Also known as Stone Harbor)
USLSS Station #35, Fourth District
Coast Guard Station #132
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Location:
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2 1/2 miles northeast from Hereford Inlet Light; 39-03' 35"N x 74-44' 50"W in 1878; 39-02' 30"N x 74-45' 50"W in 1915.
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Date of Conveyance
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1855
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Station Built:
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1872
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Fate:
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Abandoned in 1948.
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Remarks:
A new site was acquired in 1893. Station was called Stone Harbor.
Keepers:
H. B. Richards was first appointed in 1856. It is unknown when he left the service.
John W. Gandy was appointed on DEC 30 1870. He left the service in 1874.
Franklin Hand was appointed in NOV 27, 1874 and left the service in 1876.
Richard C. Holmes was appointed on MAR 28, 1876 and was dismissed from service on NOV 29, 1887.
John W. Swain was appointed on MAR 9, 1888 and was transferred to Avalon Station on DEC 1, 1894.
Richard S. Lundlam was appointed on MAR 27, 1895 and resigned from service on FEB 24, 1910.
Harry McGinley a Gold Life Saving Medal Recipient was appointed on FEB 18, 1910 and was still serving in 1915. Click here for an account of the 30 DEC 1912 rescue that earned him and his crew the Gold Lifesaving Medal.
CWO Jesse G. Hearon was the OIC in 1929.
Photographs:
"STONE - HARBOR"; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
Courtesy of Van R. Field.
"STONE HARBOR"; no date/photo number; photographer unknown. Probably 1930s.
Courtesy of Van R. 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.