Station Sheboygan, Wisconsin
USLSS Station #16, Eleventh District
Coast Guard Station #285
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Location:
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North side, Sheboygan River, entrance to Sheboygan Harbor, 9/16 mile west of Sheboygan Breakwater Light;
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Date of Conveyance
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1874
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Station Built:
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1875
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Fate:
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Still in operation
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Remarks:
Station was moved in 1887.
Keepers & OICs:
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1876 - 1886
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Captain Oley Groh
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1886 - 1889
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Captain Thomas D.McBride
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1889 - 1902
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Captain Joseph Nequette
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1902 - 1915
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Captain Joseph Dionne
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1915, 16
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Fred Stebbins
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Edward Shambeau
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1925 - 1929
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Solomon Nadeau
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1930 -
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Collin Westrope
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1938 -
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Captain A.E. Christopherson
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1947,48
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Chief Collins
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- Oct 1949
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CBM Alphonse M. Lewy
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Oct 49 -
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CBM Alfres M. Anderson
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1950 - 1954
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BMC George Dickerson
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-1955
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BMC Paul R. Cornell
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1955 - 1959
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BMC Wesley W. Koran
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1959 - 1962
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BMC James Whitlock
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1962 -
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BMC Roy Murphy
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1967
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BMC Edward L. Royer
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1971 - 1974
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James Leftwich
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1974 -
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BMC Russel Wren
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1980
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BMC Herbert C. Ocobock
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1982
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BMC Stuart Vandre
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1984 - 1987
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BMC Gary Reetz
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1987 - 1990
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BMC Terry Lange
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1990 - 1993
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BMC Charles Wolfson
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1993 - 1996
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BMC William "Smokie Brannaman
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1996 - 2002
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Station Small
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2003 - 2007
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BMC Michael Snyder
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2007 - 2011
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BMC Marcus S. Evans
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Sources:
Marcus Evans, USCG (STA Sheboygan OIC 2007-2011)
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.