Photo Above: Coquille River station, 1916. >>>Click Photo to Zoom
At about the same time as the lighthouse was being discussed for the Coquille River, a life-saving station was proposed for Bandon. Oregon Representative Binger Hermann requested the establishment of a life-saving station in 1889. The argument must have been persuasive and the facts clear, as a station with crew was approved on February 20, 1889. Construction on the station was well underway by June 1890, and it was activated in early 1891. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard.)
Board of Directors
Officers
President
Frederick Stonehouse, M.A.
Marquette Maritime Museum
Vice President
Jeff Shook
Owner, USCG Station St. Clair Flats
President, Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy
Treasurer
Captain A. Drew Loizeaux, DC, USN (Ret.)
Past President, Chicamacomico Historical Association
Clerk/Secretary
Richard M. Boonisar
Past President, USLSSHA
Owner, Gurnet Life-Saving Station
Directors
Executive Director
John Galluzzo
William Clark
Owner, USCG Station West Quoddy Head
Commander Maurice E. Gibbs, USN (Ret.)
Past President, USLSSHA
President Emeritus, Nantucket Shipwreck and Life Saving Museum
Charles Greene
USCG (Ret.), Historian
Bill Herd
Park Ranger (Ret.)
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Kimberly Mann
Historical Architect
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
David Pinyerd
President
Historic Preservation Northwest
LCDR Richard G. Ryder, USN (Ret.)
Historian and Author
www.uslifesavingmarker.com
John C. Stires
Charter Member
Indian River LSS Museum
Penelope S. Watson, A.I.A.
Architecture, Planning and Engineering Principal
Watson & Henry Associates
Debbie A. Jett
Contributing Writer and Researcher
Advisory Board
Robert Browning, Ph.D.
Historian, U.S. Coast Guard
Kevin J. Foster
Director, National Maritime Heritage Program
Captain Dana A. Goward, USCG (Ret.)
Former Chief, Office of Boat Forces
Dennis L. Noble, Ph.D.
Maritime Historian and Author
Curtis Prout, M.D.
President, Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
William Quinn
Maritime Historian and Author
Ralph Shanks, M.A.
Maritime Historian, Anthropologist and Author
Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.)
Maritime Historian and Author
William D. Wilkinson
Director Emeritus
The Mariners' Museum
Photo Above: Barview, c.1910. Some stations had horses to help with hauling the boat cart through the sand. Here the Tillamook Bay Life-Saving Station crew pose before launching their surfboat around 1910, in good weather. (Author's Collection.)
