Station Marquette, Michigan
Coast Guard Station #298
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Location:
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At easterly city limits, near inner end of breakwater, 1/16 mile west of Marquette Light;
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Date of Conveyance:
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1889
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Station Built:
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1890
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Fate:
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Still in operation
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Remarks: None
Keepers:
Henry Cleary was appointed keeper on 24 January 1891 and was still serving 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.