Station Nome, Alaska

June 23, 2021

Station Nome, Alaska

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Coast Guard Station #335

Location:

At Nome, Alaska; 64-30' 00"N x 165-23' 00"W

Date of Conveyance

1905

Station Built:

1905

Fate:

Discontinued in 1949

Remarks:

Owing to the urgent demand for services of a life-saving crew, a vacant building on the government reservation there was turned over to the service.

Keepers:

Thomas A. Ross was appointed keeper on 15 APR 1907 and served in that capacity until retiring on FEB 1 1939.

Photography:

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Life-Saving Station, Nome, Alaska, July, 1906

 

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Nome’s crew

 

 

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USRC Bear off Nome, no date.

 

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U.S. Coast Guard Station Nome, Alaska.

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  Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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