Station Marquette, Michigan

June 21, 2021

Official USCG Seal, circa 1943

Station Marquette, Michigan

Coast Guard Station #298

Location:	At easterly city limits, near inner end of breakwater, 1/16 mile west of Marquette Light;
Date of Conveyance:	1889
Station Built:	1890
Fate:	Still in operation

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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.