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The US Life Saving Service Heritage Association provides helpful communication among various preservation-minded individuals and organizations on the different aspects from saving stations to preserving artifacts by networking with individuals who specialize in different areas of expertise to those that need information. We publish an information-packed quarterly magazine called Wreck & Rescue, detailing the many accounts of desperate shipwrecks and saving lives, it includes preservation updates among many other topics. We also publish a quarterly newsletter called Life-Lines, to update our members on matters between issues of the quarterly magazine.
Through this information flow, readers of these publications can keep abreast of preservation developments concerning a number of ‘at risk’ station sites. Major articles are published that educate the membership about the heroic events of yesteryear’s Keepers and Surfmen, as well as today’s U. S. Coast Guard. We have an annual meeting where we travel to various locations throughout the US to visit these stations, keep up to date on various preservation projects, fund raising efforts and learn about the past heroic efforts of the lifesavers as well as today’s modern US Coast Guard efforts of saving lives. It is truly a unique gathering for anyone interested in learning about early life saving efforts.
We are in need of donations to help accomplish our goals and missions, donations are greatly appreciated. We have a number of projects the organization is working on which you can read about on our site and in our publications.
The U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association was founded at the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1995 by caring individuals, maritime historians, authors, museum directors and National Park Service professionals among others to preserve the stations, history, boats, and equipment of the US Life-Saving Service and US Coast Guard. We are the only national organization dedicated to preserving America’s fast-vanishing lifesaving stations and early Coast Guard lifeboat stations.
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Photo Above:
Coos Bay lifeboat in surf. The Dobbins lifeboat was a lightweight lifeboat developed in 1881. It was 24 feet long, weighing from 1,600 to 2,000 pounds. It was self-righting and self-bailing and could carry up to 33 people safely. It was rowed by eight surfmen and steered by the keeper with a tiller. A Dobbins lifeboat appears in many photos on the Oregon Coast, and it is believed that every Oregon station had one in addition to their surfboat by 1900. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard.)
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