Station Arena Cove, California

April 6, 2021

Official USCG Seal, circa 1943

Station Arena Cove, California

Coast Guard Station #314

Location:	North side of Arena Cove, 2 1/2 miles south southeast of Point Arena Light; 38-54' 50"N x 123-42' 30"W.
Date of Conveyance	1901
Station Built:	1902
Fate:	Transferred to the U.S. Navy in 1958

Remarks:

None.

Keepers:

Henry Smith was appointed keeper on 13 SEP 1902 and left in 1914.

Thomas L. Stitt was appointed keeper 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 Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.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.