Station Lorain, Ohio

June 14, 2021

Station Lorain, Ohio

Coast Guard Station #240

Location:

East side of entrance of Black River, Lorain Harbor, 13/16 mile southeast of Lorain West Breakwater Light.

Date of Conveyance:

1904

Station Built:

1908

Fate:

Still in operation

Remarks:

None.

Keepers:

Winslow W. Griesser was appointed keeper on 31 MAR 1911 and was still serving in 1915.

Photographs:

 

Lorain_1.jpg

 

Original caption reads "Old Photo, Lorain, Station 240"; no date/photo number, photographer unknown.

 

Lorain_2.jpg

 

Original caption reads "Lorain Station, Alterations to Dwelling, 10-9-38, W-9"; no photo number; October 9, 1938; 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  Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.