Station Thunder Bay Island, Michigan
USLSS Station #6, Tenth District
Coast Guard Station #252
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Location:
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West side Thunder Bay Island, 3/8 mile west of Thunder Bay Island Light; Lake Huron
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Date of Conveyance
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1875
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Station Built:
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1876
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Fate:
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Discontinued in 1951
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Remarks: None.
Keepers:
Isaac S. Mathews was appointed keeper on 7 SEP 1876 and left in 1878 (?)
John D. Persons was appointed keeper on 15 JAN 1878 and was still serving in 1915.
No caption/date/photo number; photographer unknown.
"Thunder Bay Mich L.S. crew."; no date/photo number; photographer unknown.
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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.