Wreck & Rescue

Join the USLSSHA and receive our quarterly journal, Wreck & Rescue. This full-color magazine features articles and regular columns pertaining to the history of the Life-Saving Service, the Coast Guard and other related entities. You’ll look forward to receiving your next issue of our educational and entertaining publication!

Volume 24, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2023)

  • USLSSHA Annual Meeting, Schedule of Events
  • The Night the Congress Burned, from the Esther White Morse Collection
  • Joshua James, Life-Saver, Part 3 by Sumner L. Kimball
  • The Royal National Lifeboat Institution of Northeast Scotland, Part 2 by John Kopp
  • Guardians of the Eighth Sea by PJ1 Michael O’Brien, USCG
  • Semper Paratus:” The Multiple Origins by James D. Charlet
  • A Fate Worse than Famine: The Tragedy of the Brig John by Risk Wand
  • A Report from the Chicamacomico LSS
  • Book Review: Deadly Beacon by Patrick Alarcon

Volume 24, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2023)

  • 2023 USLSSHA Annual Meeting
  • Long Blue Line: “To Never Halt or Falter” by LTJG Michael B. Sobelman, USCG
  • Joshua James, Life-Saver, part 2 by Sumner L Kimball
  • The Royal National Lifeboat Institution of Northeast Scotland, Part 1, by John Kopp
  • Discovering a Lifesaver in my Family, Racine Life-Saving Station by Eric B. Sanburg
  • The 36-foot Motor Lifeboat: An Amazing Boat by John and Karen Wells

Volume 24, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2023)

  • 2023 USLSSHA Annual Meeting, Preview of Events by Sam Reid
  • Guardians of the Eighth Sea: Life-Saving Service in the Great Lakes by Michael O’Brien, USCG
  • Rescuing the Rescue Boat: Rebuilding a Boat from the Outside In by Eugene Johnson
  • Solving a 110-year Mystery by Cory Adkins
  • Joshua James, Life-Saver, part 1, by Sumner L. Kimball
  • Legacy’s Shadow: The Keeper’s Lost Grave by PO1 Jonathan Lally
  • The Problem is Drift by David Schroeder
  • The Coast Guard’s Newest Cutter, the CGC Warren Deyampert

Volume 23, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2023)

  • The Serendipitous Life Line by James D. Charlet
  • Native Keepers on Martha’s Vineyard by William H. Thiesen
  • Upside Down and Backwards by David Schroeder
  • The Hull Lifesaving Museum Memorializes the Virtues of Courage and Sacrifice by Glendon J. Buscher, Jr.
  • Captain Winslow Lewis of Wellfleet: The Crown Prince of America’s Lighthouses by James Risk
  • Book Review: Sky Pilot of the Great Lakes by John Kotzian
  • and Richard Warner
  • Book Review: Boon Island by Kenneth Roberts
  • Billy Flores: Hero of the Cutter Blackthorn by William H. Thiesen

Volume 23, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Autumn 2022)

  • 2022 USLSSHA Annual Meeting, Ocean City, NJ
  • Wood Island Boat Launch by Sam Reid
  • The Wreck of the Castagna by Richard G. Ryder
  • The Wreck & Rescue of the Schooner B. Goodman by James D. Charlet
  • Riehl and his Live-Saving Kite by John Galluzzo

Volume 23, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2022)

  • The Mirlo Rescue: The Most Highly Awarded Maritime Rescue in U. S. History by James D. Charlet
  • Piracy in the Midst of Search and Rescue by Mel Poole
  • Beach Apparatus Drill Returns to Cape Cod by Richard G. Ryder
  • Book Review: The Tragic Sinking of Gloucester’s Patriot by Capt. W. Russell Webster
  • Bolinas Bay Lifeboat Station Destroyed by Ralph Shanks

Volume 23, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2022)

  • Maurice Gibbs: A Memory by John Galluzzo
  • Shipwreck Society Finds Vessel at Bottom of Lake Superior after 130 Years by Corey Adkins
  • A Most Unusual Cutter: the U. S. Revenue/Coast Guard Cutter Snohomish by Timothy Dring
  • The Mystery of the Nuova Ottavia: The First Loss of Life of a USLSS Crewman by James D. Charlet

Volume 22, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2022)

  • The Twin Outer Banks Shipwreck Disasters by James D. Charlet
  • The Church at Wash Woods by Gene Bialek
  • Music and Life-Saving by Rebecca Locklear
  • Solving the Mystery of the Changing U. S. Life-Saving Numbers by James D. Charlet
  • Do You Know the Ropes from Stem to Stern by David Schroeder

Volume 22, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2021)

  • Wreck of the SS Central America: The Anniversary of a Single Shipwreck that Altered America by James D. Charlet
  • A Very Different Kind of Rescue Mission: The USCG’s Role in the Rescue and Salvage of the U. S. Navy Submarine USS Squalus in 1939 by Tim Dring
  • The 144th Anniversary of the USS Huron Disaster by James D. Charlet
  • Update from Wood Island Station, Kittery Point, by Samuel Reid
  • Dog Tags of the Early Coast Guard by Richard G. Ryder
  • All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the USCGC Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship by Capt. Steven J. Craig
  • Ernest “Skipper” Eldredge (1874 – 1964) by Rebecca Locklear

Volume 22, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2021)

  • Lifesavers at Last Receive a Reward: New Coast Guard Law Gives Pensions to Veterans of the Service, published in the New Bedford Standard Times, January 1915.
  • USLSS/USCG Station Nome: A very Unique History by Tim Dring
  • Vanquished and Vanished: Outer Banks (NC) Ex-towns by James D. Charlet
  • Charles Jennings, Life-Saver and Lightkeeper by Rebecca Locklear

Volume 22, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2021)

  • An Act to Create the Coast Guard, Part 2, by Charles A. Merrill
  • Surfmen’s Mutual Benevolent Association by Robin Daniels Holt
  • The Rescue of the Crew and Passengers of the Bonita by JoAnn Semones
  • Consolation to Cape Cod: History of Coast Guard Aviation, Part 3, by Patricia Garrity
  • Point Gammon Lighthouse by Duncan Oliver

Volume 21, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2021)

  • The Future CGC William P. Chadwick: The Joys and Rewards of Networking in Historical Research by Tim Dring
  • An Act to Create the Coast Guard, Part 1, by Charles A. Merrill
  • The Thirteen-Year War by David Schroeder
  • The Gold Medal Heroes of Saint Peter Port Lifeboat Station, Guernsey by JoAnn Semones
  • The Move to Salem: History of Coast Guard Aviation, Part 2 by Patricia Garrity
  • Book Review: By Resolution and Perseverance: The History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by John Galluzzo

Volume 21, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2020)

  • 2020 Annual Conference: How it Went Down by Kimberly S. Mann
  • Life-Saving Service Document: A report to General Superintendent Kimball from 2nd C. H. McLellan exonerating Keeper Holmes of charges filed against him.
  • 53 Words: A Modest Description of True Heroism by Carol Etzold
  • The Wreck of the Jason by Gene Bialek
  • Trying to Set the Record Straight: The Convoluted History of the 34-Foot Merryman Lifeboat and It’s Conversion to the First Type of Motor Lifeboat Operated by the USLSS by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: New England Coast Guard Stories: Remarkable Mariners by Dyke Hendrickson

Volume 21, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2020)

  • Little Beach, One of the “Lost Stations” by Louis H. Berry
  • Just a Bureaucrat? Who was Sumner Kimball by David Schroeder
  • Namesake: CGC Kimball by Richard Ryder
  • Namesake: CGC James by David Schroeder
  • Ten Pound Island: A small island off Massachusetts played a big role in Coast Guard’s early adoption of aviation by Patricia Garrity
  • Richard E. Ryder by Richard G. Ryder
  • The Long Blue Line: How 80 Coast Guardsmen saved an Alaskan town during the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1919 by BM1 William A. Bleyer, U.S.C.G.

Volume 21, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2020)

  • A Look Into a Station’s Medicine Chest by Debbie Jett and Richard Ryder
  • Despite All Their Best: The Wreck of the SS Strathairlyby Joe D. Friday, Jr.
  • Coast Guard Station Workhorses: Crawler Tractors for Towing Surfboats on Boat Wagons by Timothy Dring
  • Book Review: Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks: Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlanticby James D. Charlet
  • Book Review: Exploring the U. S. Life-Saving Service, 1878 – 1915: 17 Student Workshops with 120 Activities by Rebecca Locklear
  • The Ballad of Surfman Pete, a poem by Mary Jane Page
  • Mystery of the Wreck (the Daniel I Tenney) – Solved, by Richard Boonisar and Nancy Shoemaker

Volume 20, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2020)

  • It Took an Association (Save Our Station - Vermilion) by Grace Truman
  • Keeper John Arndt Anderson, USLSS 1870 – 1926 by Alan Nelson
  • “CG 1” – the Coast Guard’s First Aircraft by John Moseley
  • Travel Journal of Mrs. William S. Baldwin, 1870 - 1889, transcribed by Richard Boonisar
  • Mystery Tower – Solved by Debbie Allyn Jett

Volume 20, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2019)

  • $8,000 Lifeboat for Wood End, reprinted from Along the Coast, May 1910
  • The Single Most Important Shipwreck in American History – Cue Sumner Kimball by James D. Charlet
  • The Great New England Hurricane – the Services’ Last Battle Before the War by William H. Thiesen
  • New England Coast Guard Family Keeps Mounted Patrol History by Reid Oslin
  • William Bolton, Gen. Supt. of USLSS Telephone System, reprinted from Along the Coast, 1909
  • USLSSHA 2019 Annual Meeting, September 26 – 28, Lake Ontario Region

Volume 20, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2019)

  • Death of the Coast Guard’s First Historian, Truman R. Strobridge (Obituary)
  • The USLSS Station Pea Island Cookhouse Museum by James Charlet
  • “Semper Paratus” – Coast Guard Men and Women in Hurricane Maria by J. Edwin Nieves, MD
  • Plum Island Station Shines Bright Once Again by Mary Beth Volmer
  • The Nuova OttaviaShipwreck: Its Impact on the USLSS by Mel Poole
  • New Painting Brings Surfmen’s History to Life by Catherine Kozak

Volume 20, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2019)

  • Join us for a Fascinating Conference in the Lake Ontario Region by Patricia Ryder
  • Niagara Falls and the Sand Scow, 1918, by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • A Glimpse Into an Annual Report of the USLSS by David Schroeder
  • The Wreck of the Gasoline Launch Gerald D, November 12, 1908, by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Amphibians: Part of Coast Guard Aviation: a further discussion
  • Fire Fighting Equipment at the Old Harbor Life-Saving Station by Richard Ryder

Volume 19, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2019)

  • Arcturus: A Distinguished Amphibian in the History of Coast Guard Aviation by William H. Thiesen
  • History of the Spanish Life-Saving Society: Arecibo Local Board, Puerto Rico by Daniel Mora-Ortiz
  • Challenge Coins: From Identifiers to Tokens of Esteem by Debbie Allyn Jett

 

 

Volume 19, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2018)

  • Remembering a Coast Guard Hero: Andy Fitzgerald by Nancy Viall Shoemaker
  • Report on the Annual Conference: Outer Banks, North Carolina by Patricia N. and Richard G. Ryder
  • The Outer Banks USLSSHA 2018 Annual Meeting: Why so many Shipwrecks in this Graveyard of the Atlantic by James D. Charlet
  • Wreck of the Steam Tug USS Triana,1891, by Richard G. Ryder
  • David Jarvis, the Early Bering Sea Patrol and the Famous Overland Relief Expedition by William H. Thiesen
  • The Unique Rescue Craft Assigned to the USLSS/USCG Station City Point, MA by Tim Dring
  • The Birth of the Massachusetts Humane Society by John J. Galluzzo

Volume 19, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2018)

  • Yeomanette? by David Schroeder
  • Ida Lewis—Lighthouse Keeper, Lifesaver and “The Bravest Woman in America” by William H. Thiesen
  • Ida Lewis: The Heroine by Federico Santi
  • Nancy Viall Shoemaker Named Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The United States Life-Saving Service in California, Part 2, by Ralph Shanks
  • USLSS and USCG Boat Launch and Recovery Equipment, Part 3: Marine Railway Launch Ramps by Tim Dring

Volume 19, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2019)

  • The United States Life-Saving Service in California, Part 1 by Ralph Shanks
  • JDR Adak Assignment by John D. Ryder
  • Adak Assignment Poem by John D. Ryder
  • Hull Lifesaving Museum Honors Mr. Ross Sherbrooke at Greater Love Gala by Victoria Stevens
  • Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge Hits the Road by Linda Geary
  • Four Missions that made Cutter Seneca Famous by William H. Thiesen
  • Captain Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Life-Savers (from USCG website)
  • U. S Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard Vertical Boat Lifts by Tim Dring

Volume 19, Number 2 – Wreck and Resue (Summer 2018)

  • Yeomanette? By David Schroeder
  • Ida Lewis—Lighthouse Keeper, Lifesaver and “The Bravest Woman in America” by William Thiesen
  • Ida Lewis: The Heroine by Federico Santi
  • Nancy Viall Shoemaker Named Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The United States Life-Saving Service in California, Part 2 by Ralph Shanks
  • USLSS and USCG Boat Launch and Recovery Equipment, Part 3: Marine Railway Launch Ramps by Tim Dring

Volume19, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2018)

  • Remembering a Coast Guard Hero: Andy Fitzgerald by Nancy Viall Shoemaker
  • Report on the Annual Conference: Outer Banks, North Carolina by Patricia N. and Richard G. Ryder
  • The Outer Banks USLSSHA 2018 Annual Meeting: Why so many Shipwrecks in this Graveyard of the Atlantic by James D. Charlet
  • Wreck of the Steam Tug USS Triana, 1891 by Richard G. Ryder
  • David Jarvis, the Early Bering Sea Patrol and the Famous Overland Relief Expedition by William H. Thiesen
  • The Unique Rescue Craft Assigned to the USLSS/USCG Station City Point, MA by Tim Dring
  • The Birth of the Massachusetts Humane Society by John J. Galluzzo

Volume 19, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2019)

  • Arcturus: A Distinguished Amphibian in the History of Coast Guard Aviation by William H. Thiesen
  • History of the Spanish Life-Saving Society: Arecibo Local Board, Puerto Rico by Daniel Mora-Ortiz
  • Challenge Coins: From Identifiers to Tokens of Esteem by Debbie Allyn Jett

Volume 20, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2019)

  • Join us for a Fascinating Conference in the Lake Ontario Region by Patricia Ryder
  • Niagara Falls and the Sand Scow, 1918 by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • A Glimpse Into an Annual Report of the USLSS by David Schroeder
  • The Wreck of the Gasoline Launch Gerald D, November 12 1908 by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Amphibians: Part of Coast Guard Aviation: a further discussion
  • Fire Fighting Equipment at the Old Harbor Life-Saving Station by Richard Ryder

Volume 20, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2019)

  • Death of the Coast Guard’s First Historian
  • The USLSS Station Pea Island Cookhouse Museum by James Charlet
  • “Semper Paratus” – Coast Guard Men and Women in Hurricane Maria by J. Edwin Nieves MD
  • Plum Island Station Shines Bright Once Again by Mary Beth Volmer
  • The Nuova Ottavia Shipwreck: Its Impact on the USLSS by Mel Poole
  • New Painting Brings Surfmen’s History to Life by Catherine Kozak

Volume 20, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2019)

  • $8,000 Lifeboat for Wood End, reprinted from Along the Coast, May 1910
  • The Single Most Important Shipwreck in American History – Cue Sumner Kimball by James D. Charlet
  • The Great New England Hurricane – the Services’ Last Battle Before the War by William H. Thiesen
  • New England Coast Guard Family Keeps Mounted Patrol History by Reid Oslin
  • Col. William Bolton, Gen. Supt. of USLSSS Telephone System, reprinted from Along the Coast, 1909
  • USLSSHA 2019 Annual Meeting, September 26 – 28, Lake Ontario Region

Volume 20, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2020)

  • It Took an Association (Save Our Station - Vermilion) by Grace Truman
  • Keeper John Arndt Anderson, USLSS 1870 – 1926 by Alan Nelson
  • “CG 1” – the Coast Guard’s First Aircraft by John Moseley
  • Travel Journal of Mrs. William S. Baldwin, 1870 - 1889, transcribed by Richard Boonisar
  • Mystery Tower – Solved by Debbie Allyn Jett

Volume 21, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2020)

  • A Look Into a Station’s Medicine Chest by Debbie Jett and Richard Ryder
  • Despite All Their Best: The Wreck of the SS Strathairly by Joe S. Friday, Jr.
  • Coast Guard Station Workhorses: Crawler Tractors for Towing Surfboats on Boat Wagons by Timothy Dring
  • Book Review: Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks: Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic by James D. Charlet
  • Book Review: Exploring the U. S. Life-Saving Service, 1878 – 1915: 17 Student Workshops with 120 Activities by Rebecca Locklear
  • The Ballad of Surfman Pete, a poem by Mary Jane Page
  • Mystery of the Wreck (the Daniel I Tenney) – Solved, by Richard Boonisar and Nancy Shoemaker

Volume 20, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2019)

  • Death of the Coast Guard’s First Historian
  • The USLSS Station Pea Island Cookhouse Museum by James Charlet
  • “Semper Paratus” – Coast Guard Men and Women in Hurricane Maria by J. Edwin Nieves MD
  • Plum Island Station Shines Bright Once Again by Mary Beth Volmer
  • The Nuova Ottavia Shipwreck: Its Impact on the USLSS by Mel Poole
  • New Painting Brings Surfmen’s History to Life by Catherine Kozak

Volume 20, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2019)

  • Join us for a Fascinating Conference in the Lake Ontario Region by Patricia Ryder
  • Niagara Falls and the Sand Scow, 1918 by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • A Glimpse Into an Annual Report of the USLSS by David Schroeder
  • The Wreck of the Gasoline Launch Gerald D, November 12 1908 by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Amphibians: Part of Coast Guard Aviation: a further discussion
  • Fire Fighting Equipment at the Old Harbor Life-Saving Station by Richard Ryder

Volume 19, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2019)

  • Arcturus: A Distinguished Amphibian in the History of Coast Guard Aviation by William H. Thiesen
  • History of the Spanish Life-Saving Society: Arecibo Local Board, Puerto Rico by Daniel Mora-Ortiz
  • Challenge Coins: From Identifiers to Tokens of Esteem by Debbie Allyn Jett

Volume 19, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2018)

  • Remembering a Coast Guard Hero: Andy Fitzgerald by Nancy Viall Shoemaker
  • Report on the Annual Conference: Outer Banks, North Carolina by Patricia N. and Richard G. Ryder
  • The Outer Banks USLSSHA 2018 Annual Meeting: Why so many Shipwrecks in this Graveyard of the Atlantic by James D. Charlet
  • Wreck of the Steam Tug USS Triana, 1891 by Richard G. Ryder
  • David Jarvis, the Early Bering Sea Patrol and the Famous Overland Relief Expedition by William H. Thiesen
  • The Unique Rescue Craft Assigned to the USLSS/USCG Station City Point, MA by Tim Dring
  • The Birth of the Massachusetts Humane Society by John J. Galluzzo

Volume 19, Number 2 – Wreck and Resue (Summer 2018)

  • Yeomanette? By David Schroeder
  • Ida Lewis—Lighthouse Keeper, Lifesaver and “The Bravest Woman in America” by William Thiesen
  • Ida Lewis: The Heroine by Federico Santi
  • Nancy Viall Shoemaker Named Mercy Otis Warren Cape Cod Woman of the Year by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The United States Life-Saving Service in California, Part 2 by Ralph Shanks
  • USLSS and USCG Boat Launch and Recovery Equipment, Part 3: Marine Railway Launch Ramps by Tim Dring

Volume 19, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2019)

  • The United States Life-Saving Service in California, Part 1 by Ralph Shanks
  • JDR Adak Assignment by John D. Ryder
  • Adak Assignment Poem by John D. Ryder
  • Hull Lifesaving Museum Honors Mr. Ross Sherbrooke at Greater Love Gala by Victoria Stevens
  • Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge Hits the Road by Linda Geary
  • Four Missions that made Cutter Seneca Famous by William H. Thiesen
  • Captain Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Life-Savers (from USCG website)
  • S Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard Vertical Boat Lifts by Tim Dring

Volume 18, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2018)

  • The Founding of the USLSSHA, from the Premier Issue of Wreck & Rescue, by Ralph Shanks
  • The USLSSHA: Twenty-three Years and Counting by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Preserving Maritime History: Nahant’s Unique Life-Saving Station by Dennis Maroney
  • Marquette Life-Saving Keeper and Lighthouse Keeper Honored in Unusual Way by Hilary Billman and Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The MirloRescue by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Book Review: Gurnet Point: A Small Remote Summer Community with a Fascinating Historyby Richard M. Boonisar
  • USLSS and USCG Surfboat Roller Skids by Timothy R. Dring

Volume 18, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2017)

  • Harker’s Island Remembrance by Pat and Richard Ryder
  • Shipwrecks and Rescues of the Outer Banks by James D. Charlet
  • The Survivor, a play by Rebecca Locklear
  • Frank F. Petosky, Motor Machinist Mate First Class (L): Life in the USLSS & USCG 1927 – 1939, by Scott Bundschuh
  • “The Rescue of the Sarah D. J. Rawson”, a poem by James W. Thompson

Volume 18, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2018)

  • The Founding of the USLSSHA, from the Premier Issue of Wreck & Rescue, by Ralph Shanks
  • The USLSSHA: Twenty-three Years and Counting by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Preserving Maritime History: Nahant’s Unique Life-Saving Station by Dennis Maroney
  • Marquette Life-Saving Keeper and Lighthouse Keeper Honored in Unusual Way by Hilary Billman and Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The Mirlo Rescue by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Book Review: Gurnet Point: A Small Remote Summer Community with a Fascinating History by Richard M. Boonisar
  • USLSS and USCG Surfboat Roller Skids by Timothy R. Dring

Volume 18, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2017)

  • Point Aux Barques Life-Saving Station Goes Home by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Free and Astray by David Schroeder
  • Katrina: Record Setting Hurricane and the Coast Guard’s Record Setting Response Effort by William H. Thiesen
  • USLSSHA Annual Meeting in San Francisco by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • First-Hand Account of San Francisco Earthquake, a letter to Harry Smith of Green Bay by Fort Point Keeper John A. Clark, May 4 1906
  • USLSS and USCG Boat Launch and Recovery Equipment: Part 1, Surfboat Wagons by Timothy R. Dring

Volume 18, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2017)

  • Siren That Do Not Tempt – The Diversions of Two Cranky Keepers, from the San Francisco Chronicle, September 25, 1887
  • Coast Guard Wings for the Fishing Fleet by John Galluzzo
  • The Espionage Act – Supporting Coast Guard Port Security for 100 Years by William H. Thiesen
  • Life-Saving Marker Ceremony at Gilbert’s Bar by Linda Geary

Volume 18, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2017)

  • Plan One: Acknowledge and the Coast Guard’s Military Baptism of Fire by William Thiesen
  • Marblehead Rescued by Dennis Kennedy
  • USLSSHA Meets in Louisville, Kentucky in 2016 by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • San Francisco Here We Come! By Ralph Shanks

Volume 17, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2017)

  • Harker’s Island Remembrance by Pat and Richard Ryder
  • Shipwrecks and Rescues of the Outer Banks by James D. Charlet
  • The Survivor, a play by Rebecca Locklear
  • Frank F. Petosky, Motor Machinist Mate First Class (L): Life in the USLSS & USCG 1927 – 1939, by Scott Bundschuh
  • “The Rescue of the Sarah D. J. Rawson”, a poem by James W. Thompson

Volume 17, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Autumn 2016)

  • Coast Guard Lighthouses and the History of “The Flying Santa” by William H. Thiesen
  • Andrea Doria and Stockholm: A Sixty-Year Review, with Lessons Learned by Maurice E. Gibbs
  • Gold Star Winner Honored 53 Years Later
  • Heroes of Holyhead Lifeboat Station by JoAnn Semones
  • The Higgins & Gifford Type Pulling Surfboat by Timothy R. Dring

Volume 17, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer, 2016)

  • How to Build a Beach Cart, Part 2 by Scott Ernst
  • Messages from the Sky Pilot of the Great Lakes: Capt. John D. Persons by John Kotzian
  • The Royal National Lifeboat Institution: The Charity that Saves Lives by Don Garvey
  • Harry Claiborne: Light Keeper and Life Saver by William H. Thiesen
  • The Curiously Different Rescue Boats of the Louisville Life-Saving Station by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: Heroes at the Falls: Louisville’s Life-Savers by Leland R. Johnson

Volume 17, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring, 2016)

  • Winslow Homer and the Wreck of the Iron Crown by Steve Landells
  • Grounding of the Tampico by Gene Bialek
  • At a Late Hour They Had Not Returned by Michael Morgan
  • The Great Granddaddy of Them All: The 30-foot RNLI Pulling/Sailing Lifeboat and its Service with the U. S. Life-Saving Service by Tim Dring
  • Station Watch: Update Wood Island and Wallops Beach by Debbie Jett

Volume 16, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (February 2016)

  • Adventures of the Golden Gate Life-Saving Station by JoAnn Semones
  • How to Build a Beach Cart by Scott Ernst
  • Finding Charles Henry Ricker by John J. Galluzzo
  • November 1886 Rescue of 24 Men Trapped Aboard Two Wallace Ships by Eugene Johnson, with Barb Koski and Pat Hamp
  • The U. S. Coast Guard’s 36 ft. Type H Motor Lifeboat by Tim Dring
  • Film Review: “The Finest Hours” by Nancy Vail Shoemaker
  • Bood Review: Station 119: From Lifesaving to Marine Research by Kenneth W. Able

Volume 16, Number 3 – Wreck and Rescue (Fall 2015)

  • Kathleen Moore (WPC 1109) by Gene Bialek
  • They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies . . . Three Nights in an Extra Bus by Richard G. Ryder
  • Back From the Brink, Two More off of the Endangered List by Dave Bernheisel
  • The Mystery Boat by Tom Beard
  • You Oughta Be in Pictures . . . (Photos from our Annual Meeting 2015)
  • Former U. S. Coast Guard/U. S. Maritime Service Monomoy and Drill Boat Type Surfboats by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: The Last Laker by Frederick Stonehouse
  • Station Watch: Amagansett Life-Saving Station by Mike Carlson

Volume 16, Number 2 – Wreck and Rescue (Summer 2015)

  • The Francis Life-Car and the Wreck of the Hartzell on Lake Michigan by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The Francis Life Car Proves Its Worth by Thomas P. Farner
  • An Early Birthday Present for the Sky Pilot of the Great Lakes by John Kotzian
  • The Francis Metallic Lifecar by Tim Dring
  • Life-Saving: Then and Now by David Schroeder
  • Book Review: Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank by Matthew Lawrence, Deborah Marx and John Galluzzo

Volume 16, Number 1 – Wreck and Rescue (Spring 2015)

  • The Coast Guard, the Atlantic, and Victory in Europe by Robert Binns, Sr.
  • U. S. Life Saving Station 30 by Fred Miller
  • Rescuing the Shipwrecked Along Jersey Coast by Thomas P. Farner
  • The U. S. Coast Guard’s 327 ft. Secretary Class Cutters by Tim Dring
  • The Francis Metallic Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: A Short Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt
  • Museum Spotlight: The Pea Island Cookhouse Museum by Joan Collins

Volume 15, Number 4 – Wreck and Rescue (Winter 2015)

  • 1790 – 1915: That Others Might Live by John Galluzzo
  • The U. S. Revenue Cutter Service in the War of 1812 by William H. Thiesen
  • Interview with Commandant Paul Zukunft by Ralph Shanks
  • Celebrating Coast Guard History: 100th Anniversary of the “Act to Create the U. S. Coast Guard” by Scott Price
  • Life-Savers’ Pension Bill Passed, reprint from the Duluth News Tribune, January 29, 1915
  • Semper Paratus by B. T. (Tom) Beard
  • Catching the “Bad Guys”: The Coast Guard’s Design, Construction, and Employment of Interceptor Picket Boats during the 1920’s by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: The Coast Guard: The Foundation for Coast Guard History, Tom Beard, Editor in Chief
  • Museum Spotlight: National Coast Guard Museum Efforts Continue by Debbie Allyn Jett

Volume 15, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (Fall 2014)

  • GC 36500 Performs Another Rescue by Richard G. Ryder
  • Ocean Express Rescue by B. T. Beard
  • A Tribute to the United States Coast Guard by George Grimes
  • World’s Fairs and the USLSS by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Keeper’s Letter from the `1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, John S. Clark to Harry Smith, transcribed by Richard G. Ryder
  • Remembering a “Gold Medal” Motor Lifeboat by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: Water Under the Keel: Memoirs of a Seagoing Life by George Grimes
  • Station Watch: Vermilion Point Life-Saving Station by Grace Truman

Volume 15, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (Summer 2014)

  • Station No. 40 and the Attack on Orleans: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod, an excerpt from Attack on Orleans by Jake Klim
  • Transitions for the Coast Guard Stations at Little Egg Inlet (NJ) in the Early 1900’s by Kenneth W. Able
  • Devotion to Duty: Lt. John A. Pritchard’s Epic Story of Search and Rescue on the Greenland Ice Cape by William H. Thiesen
  • The “Oddballs” of the USLSS’s Surfboat Fleet, Part 2, by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: Attack on Orleans by Jake Klim
  • Station Watch: Wood Island Life-Saving Station by Sam Reid

Volume 15, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (Spring 2014)

  • House of Refuge No. 1: Forgotten History of Vero Beach by Sandra Thurlow
  • The Orange Grove House of Refuge No. 3 by Gilbert L. Voss
  • The Florida Houses of Refuge by Ellen Henry
  • The “Oddballs” of the USLSSS’s Surfboat Fleet by Tim Dring
  • Book Review: Sky Pilots of the Great Lakes by John Kotzian
  • Station Watch by Mike Carlson

Volume 14, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (Winter 2014)

  • The Last One Standing: Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • 2013 Annual Meeting on Lake Huron by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The Memoirs of a Life-Saver’s Daughter by Mrs. Vernon E. Prior
  • The “Bennett Project” and Perspectives of the Human Side by Steve Marthouse
  • USLSS Development of Surfboats with Motor Propulsion by Tim Dring
  • Book Reviews: The Keeper by John G. Ives; The Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Capt. W. Russell Webster
  • Museum Spotlight: Valley Camp, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Volume 14, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (December 2013)

  • It’s All About Logistics: USLSSHA’s 15th Annual Meeting, Mackinaw City, Michigan by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 and the Wreck of the L. C. Waldo, by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Trial By Fire and Ice: The U. S. Life-Saving Service’s Type E Motor Lifeboats and Their Employment in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 by Timothy R. Dring
  • The Story of Charles Walter David, Jr.: African-American Hero of the Greenland Patrol’s Cutter Comanche by William H. Thiesen
  • Museum Spotlight: Great Lakes Lore Museum, Rogers City, Michigan

Volume 14, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2013)

  • The Wreck in Which Poor Planning Produced a Perilous Predicament, an excerpt from Storms & Sand, by Steve, Grace and Joel Truman
  • The Great Hurricane of September 21, 1938 by Van R. Field
  • The Hurricane of 1938 Hits Hull by John Galluzzo
  • The History of the “Racing Stripe” Emblem and Its Importance as a Brand Identity for World Sea Services and Coast Guards, Part II, by Christian Ostersehlte
  • To Sea Again: Charles W. Morgan Prepares to Sail by John Galluzzo
  • Book Reviews: Marshall the Sea Dog: A History of Life-Saving & Notable Nantucket Shipwrecks by Whitney Stewart; Storms & Sand: A Story of Shipwrecks and the Big Sable Point Coast Guard Station by Steve, Grace and Joel Truman; Sandy:The Jersey Shore in the Eye of the Storm by Asbury Park Press
  • Museum Spotlight: Mystic Aquarium, Connecticut

Volume 14, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (May 2013)

  • The Mysterious Mr. Parkinson: First Architect of the U. S. Life-Saving Service by Penny Watson
  • The History of the “Facing Stripe” Emblem and Its Importance as a Brand Identity for the United States Coast Guard by William H. Thiesen
  • William Augustus Newell: The Rest of the Story by Mike Carlson
  • Reminiscences of Nauset Life Boat Station by Michael J. Maynard
  • Life-Saving on the Point Reyes Coast by Kent Weymouth
  • Someone Get that Damned Dog! by Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret)
  • Book Review: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Round the World by Matthew Goodman
  • Museum Spotlight: Wood Island Life-Saving Station

Volume 13, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2013)

  • The Early Development of Maritime Rescue in the United Kingdom: The Tyne Lifeboat Institution and Volunteer Life Brigades by Steve Landells
  • Life-Saving and Leprosy: Fire on Penikese Island by John J. Galluzzo
  • Remarks of the President Aboard U. S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle, Pier 2, Washington Navy Yard Annex, Washington, D.C.
  • The Wreck of the Consuello: The Heroic Rescue of the Survivors and a Lake Erie Life-Saving Station by Leslie Korenko
  • Lighthouse Links: Cuttyhunk Lighthouse
  • Book Reviews: The United States Coast Guard and National Defense: A History from World War I to the Present; The Pox and the Covenant: Mather Franklin and the Epidemic that Changed America’s Destiny; A Perfect Lady: A Pictorial History of the U. S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle; Images of America: Assateague Island; Images of America: Cuttyhunk and the Elizabeth Islands
  • Museum Spotlight: Cuttyhunk Historical Society

Volume 13, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2012)

  • USLSSHA Visits Long Island: The Northern Edge of the Funnel by Richard G. Ryder
  • Hurricane Sandy and Her Life-Saving Service History Legacy by John J. Galluzzo
  • Lt. Robert Prause and his Cutter-based Cold Water Rescue Swimmer System by William H. Thiesen
  • North Sea Neighbors by Nicholas Leach
  • Echoes from the Surf: Block Island
  • Lighthouse Links: Boston Light is Not Out
  • Book Reviews: Disaster Off Martha’s Vineyard: The Sinking of the City of Columbus; Images of America: Ohio Lighthouses; Images of America: Lighthouses of the Ventura Coast; Images of America: North Point Milwaukee Lighthouses; Sea of Troubles: The Lost Ships of Point Sur
  • Museum Spotlight: Long Island Maritime Museum, West Sayville, NY

Volume 13, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2012)

  • The Story of Captain Levi Jackson and the Wreck of the Mertie B. Crowley by Herbert R. Ward
  • The Valentine’s Day Wrecks: Shipwrecks, the Sea and Late Nineteenth Century American Culture by Jamin Wells
  • The Rescue: An Excerpt from Chapter 8 of Disaster Off Martha’s Vineyard by Thomas Dresser
  • Designed for Heroes: The Merryman-type Pulling/Sailing Surfboat, Part IV by Tim Dring
  • Echoes from the Surf: Post Office Square
  • Lighthouse Links: Flies in West Chop Light
  • Book Reviews: A Coast Guardsman’s History of the United States Coast Guard; U.S. Coast Guard in World War II; Unsinkable: A Young Woman’s Courageous Battle on the High Seas; The Last Keeper at Split RockMuseum Spotlight: Martha’s Vineyard Museum

Volume 13, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (April 2012)

  • Storming the Coast: USLSSHA Goes West to Oregon for its 15th Annual Meeting by David Pinyerd
  • Patrolling the Liquor Line: Coast Guard Efforts to Enforce Prohibition on Boston’s Rum Row by Deborah E. Marx and Matthew S. Lawrence
  • So, Who Was This Stellwagen Guy, Anyway? And What Was His Contribution to Life-Saving Service History? by John J. Galluzzo
  • Designed for Heroes: The Merryman-type Pulling/Sailing Surfboat, Part III by Tim Dring
  • Echoes from the Surf: The NOAA Libraries
  • Lighthouse Links: Stellwagen in Texas
  • Book Reviews: How to Survive the Titanic, or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay; The Story of the Coast Guard: Volume 1: Coast Guard in War and Peace
  • Museum Spotlight: The Exhibits of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Volume 12, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2012)

  • The Christmas Tree Ship Mackinaw Sails Into Chicago by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Free Dental Care: You Get What You Pay For – Or What the Government Provides by William F Meininger
  • Reburying the Father of the Coast Guard by Ron Pesha
  • Designed for Heroes: The Merryman-Type Pulling/Sailing Surfboat, Part II, by Tim Dring
  • Book Reviews: An Historical and Archaeological Analysis of the Middle Island Life-Saving Station: Applying Site Formation Theory to Coastal Maritime Infrastructure Sites; Remembering Lubec: Stories from the Easternmost Point; Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860; Images of America: Sandy Hook; Thunder Bay Island Lighthouse and Life Saving Station; Images of America: The Coast Guard in San Diego
  • Museum Spotlight: Life-Saving Station No. 30, Ocean City, New Jersey

Volume 12, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (September 2011)

  • USLSSHA Visits the Jersey Shore: You Got a Problem with That? By Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Joshua James Goes Big: Coast Guard Announces Contract Awarded for Fifth National Security Cutter by John J. Galluzzo
  • Ashtabula Lighthouse: Questions, Movement, an Icy Situation and Changes by Scott W. Bundschuh
  • From Long Branch: An Excerpt from the New York Times August 1861
  • Thomas J. Maddock: Newburyport’s Creative Keeper by John J. Galluzzo
  • Designed for Heroes: Rescue Craft of the Beebe Boatyard, Part I by Tim Dring
  • Book Reviews: Hark Luck Coast: The Perilous Reefs of Point Montara, Lifesavers of the South Shore: A History of rescue and Loss; Deep Sea Detectives: Caught in a Killer Storm; Images of America: Galveston’s The Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas; The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U. S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
  • Museum Spotlight: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Volume 12, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (October 2010)

  • A case of Mistaken Identities: The Coast Guard’s Luis E. Pratt Affair by David M. Considine
  • Commodore Frank Hamilton Newcomb: Fighting Captain of the US Revenue Cutter Service by William H. Thiesen
  • One Tough Survivor: An Excerpt from Fatal Forecast: An Incredible Tale of Survival and Rescue at Sea by Michael J. Tougias
  • Designed for Heroes: The Merryman-type Pulling/Sailing Surfboat by Tim Dring
  • Book Reviews: Lighthouses of Louisiana: A Compete Pictorial History; Living on the Edge: Life at the Montauk Point Lighthouse, 1930 – 1945; The Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Missions of a North Atlantic Salvage Tug; Filipinos in the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard During the Vietnam War
  • Museum Spotlight: Lightship Chesapeake, Baltimore, Maryland

Volume 12, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (Spring 2010)

  • Coast Guard Cutter Tackle Smashes Ice on Maine’s Penobscot River by Bob Trapani, Jr.
  • The Galveston Life-Saving Station, September 1900: The Anatomy of a Super Hurricane and the Perils of Working for the United States Life-Saving Service by William H. Thiesen, Ph.D., Coast Guard Atlantic Area Historian
  • “I Think We Might Have Just Pissed Some People Off”: Coast Guard Special Forces in Bolivia by Matthew Mitchell
  • An Interview with World War II Veteran Paul Inden by Thomas P. Ostrom
  • Designed for Heroes: Dobbins-type Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring, USNR (Ret).
  • Museum Spotlight: Texas Seaport Museum, Galveston, Texas
  • Book Reviews: Penikese: Island of Hope; Coasties Guard Us A Through Z; United States Coast Guard
  • Grade Insignia Since 1834, In Color Plates; Not Your Father’s Coast Guard: The Untold Story of U.S.
  • Coast Guard Special Forces; True Stories of Rescue and Survival: Canada’s Unknown Heroes

 

 

Volume 11, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2009)

  • Doing it the Delmarva Way: The 2009 USLSSHA Annual Meeting and Conference by Debbis Allym
  • Jett
  • A Seashore Landmark’s Last Best Hope: Ocean City (NJ) Life-Saving Station For Sale by Charles
  • London and Kimball Baker
  • White Hurricane at the Lewes Breakwater by Michael Morgan
  • Designed for Heroes: Race Point-type Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring, USNR (Ret).
  • Book Reviews: The United States Coast Guard in World War II: A History of Domestic and Overseas
  • Actions by Thomas P. Ostrom; The Metal Lifecar: The Inventor, the Impostor and the Business of Life Savingby George E. Buker; Rehoboth Beach: A History of Surf and Sand by Michael Morgan; Zeb: Schooner Life (DVD) A Documentary Film Directed by Gordon Massingham.
  • Museum Spotlight: West Quoddy Light

Volume 11, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2008)

  • How to Save a Life (Saving Station): The History of the Ocean City (MD) Life-Saving Station and
  • Museum by James A. Hiteshew
  • Captain Henry G. Hemingway: Guardian, Cutterman, Leader of Men by William H. Thiesen, Ph. D
  • Tragedy off Rogers City: The Loss of Superintendent Joseph Sawyer and Keeper George Feaben,
  • October 20, 1880 by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Admiral Russell R. Waesche: World War II Coast Guard Commandant by Thomas P. Ostrom
  • The Golden Venture: Where Migrant Interdiction and Search and Rescue Collided by Dennis L. Noble
  • Designed for Heroes: Monomoy-type Pulling Surfboat by Tim Dring, USNR (Ret.)
  • Book Reviews: The Morris Island Lighthouse: Charleston’s Maritime Beacon by Douglas W. Bostick; Images of America: South Carolina Lighthouses by Margie Willis Clary and Kim McDermott; Images of America: Georgia’s Lighthouses by Patricia Morris; Images of America: Maryland’s Lighthouses by Cathy Taylor; Lighthouses of the Golden State: California’s Shining Beacons by Kent Weymouth; One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski; Beavertail Light Station on Conanicut Island by Varoujan Karentz.
  • Museum Spotlight: USCGC Taney

Volume 11, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2008)

  • The Loss of Israel Merritt’s Circassian by Dennis M. Powers
  • The Grounding of the U.S. Navy Submarine S-19 by William P. Quinn
  • Submarine S-19 Salvage from Nauset Beach by Robert Beattie
  • Tragedy in the Pentland Firth by Nicholas Leach
  • Requiem for a Lost Lighthouse Keeper by John J. Galluzzo
  • Echoes from the Surf: Horace Norton’s Letter to the Editor
  • Designed for Heroes: The Jersey-type Pulling Surfboat
  • Book Reviews: The Historic Northwest Passage and the CGC Storis by Dick Juge; Images of America: The 1938 Hurricane Along New England’s Coast by Joseph P. Soares; Recollections of 32 Years in the U.S. Coast Guard and Other Ramblings by William F. Meininger; Images of America: Lighthouses of the Bay Area by Betty S. Veronico.
  • Museum Spotlight: The National Museum of Naval Aviation

Volume 11, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (May 2008)

  • The Loss of the Brant Rock Life-Saving Station by John J. Galluzzo
  • Lost: The Milwaukee Coast Guard Station photos by Pete Mathews
  • Next? The Barview Life-Saving Station by David Pinyerd
  • Found: Old Life-Saving Station Resurfaces by Mike Connell
  • Molokai Now and Then: Former Coast Guard officer returns to Molokai after 40 years by Leo Azambuja
  • Echoes from the Surf: GSA Disposal Records
  • Book Reviews: Sinbad of the Coast Guard by George F. Foley, Jr., USCG; The Great Hurricanes of North Carolina by John Hairr; Images of America: Lighthouses of San Diego by Kim Fahlen and Karen Scanlon;New Jersey’s Southern Shore: An Illustrated History From Brigantine to Cape May Point by Susan Miller.
  • Museum Spotlight: Point Aux Barques Lighthouse and Huron City Museums by Debbie Allyn Jett

Volume 10, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2008)

  • Nephew Eric’s Grand Adventure: In Search of Uncle George by Eric Hartlep
  • Battling the Beast: Debbie vs. the Historical Research Monster by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Tim’s Tale: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood: A Noteworthy Test of the New Type H Lifeboats and Surfboats by CDR Timothy R. Dring USNR (Ret.)
  • Debbie at Scott’s Treasure House: The National Archives and Records Administration in Chicago by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Who’s Afraid of a Little Cape Fear? 13th Annual Meeting Set for Caswell Beach, North Carolina
  • Echoes from the Surf: Excerpt: Annual Report of the Secretary of Treasury, 1858
  • Book Reviews: Historic Nantucket: Surfside Life-saving Station by James W. Claflin; Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge: Home of History by Sandra Henderson Thurlow and Deanna Wintercorn Thurlow; Brotherhood of the Fin: A Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer’s Story by Gerald R. Hoover

 

 

Volume 10, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2007)

  • Two More Great Lakes Heard From: The 12th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage
  • Association by John Galluzzo, Jeff Shook and Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Tales from the Keeper’s Log: Life and Life-Saving at a Life-Saving Station, Part II by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • The Wreck of the A. Thayer: Last Ship Afloat Saved by the USLSS? A Paper Presented by John J. Galluzzo at the 8th Maritime Heritage Conference
  • A Coast Guard Surf Station: Morro Bay Motor Lifeboat Station by Ralph Shanks, M.A.
  • Echoes From the Surf: Still on the Books
  • Book Reviews: Coast Guard Follies: My Humor in Uniform by Ken Smith, USCG Veteran; Images of America: Block Island by Donald A. D’Amato and Henry A.L. Brown; Images of America: Ocean City, (NJ) 1950-1980 by Fred Miller; The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History by Theresa Mitchell Barbo, John Galluzzo and Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.).
  • Museum Spotlight: USCGC Sundew by Thomas P. Ostrom

Volume 10, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2007)

  • Tales from the Keeper’s Log: Life and Life-Saving at a Life-Saving Station by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Surf-Bathing and Life-Saving in Australia: Origins and Beginnings, Part 3 by Shawn Brawley
  • A Station for Horseneck Beach: The Story of the Westport Mass Humane Society Boathouse by Christopher “Chip” Gillespie
  • Previewing Images of America: Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast by David Pinyerd
  • A Ghost Station’s Keeper: Coast Guard Auxiliarist Keeps Graveyard Surfmen’s History Alive by PO1 L.F. Chambers, USCG
  • Respect Those Seas: A Tale of Danger on the Ocean by Michael Tougias
  • Echoes From the Surf: To Good Advantage
  • Book Reviews: Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea by Michael J. Tougias; Images of America: Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast by David Pinyerd; A Sailor at War on the Greenland Patrol by Maurice “Moe” Steinberg; Ocean City: An Illustrated History by Susan Miller; USCGC Mackinaw WAGB 83: An Illustrated History of a Great Lakes Queen by Mike Fornes.
  • Museum Spotlight: Mighty Mac, Grand Haven, Michigan

Volume 10, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (May 2007)

  • If These Walls Could Talk: Rediscovering a Halfway House on Cape Cod by BMCS David Considine, USCG
  • A Bittersweet Story: Reminiscences of Life Aboard USCGC Bittersweet by Frederick “Bud” Cooney
  • A Long Tradition of Service: The Wickhams of Wexford and Rosslare Harbor, Ireland by Nicholas Leach
  • Surf Bathing and Life-Saving in Australia: Origins and Beginnings, Part 2 by Sean Brawley
  • So Hard to Find Good Help: Part 3 of a 3 Part Series on the Isles of Shoals Life-Saving Station by John Galluzzo
  • Echoes From the Surf: Finding John Faunce
  • Book Reviews: Lighthouses of Maryland and Virginia: History, Mystery, Legends and Lore by Bob Trapani, Jr.; Images of America: Maritime Grand Haven: Coast Guard City, U.S.A. by Wallace K. Ewing, Ph.D, and David H. Seibold, D.D.S., for the Tri-Cities Historical Museum; The U.S.C.G. on the Great Lakes: A Historyby Thomas P. Ostrom; Images of America: Cana Island Lighthouse by Barb and Ken Wardius; Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam by Skye Moody; “Friends in Peace and War”: The Russian Navy’s Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisco by C. Douglas Kroll
  • Museum Spotlight: USCGC Ingham

Volume 9, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2007)

  • What Signals Do You Have?: Signal Systems of the United States Life-Saving Service 1871-1915 by Alison W. Ewing
  • Surf-bathing and Life-saving in Australia: Origins and Beginnings, Part 1 by Sean Brawley
  • Winter Surf Puts Would-Be Heroes to the Test by Nancy Bartley, Reprinted with permission from the
  • Seattle Times
  • Echoes from the Surf: Wig-Wag, Who Won?
  • Book Reviews: The Great Hurricane: 1938 by Cherie Burns; A Wind to Shake the World: The Story of the 1938 Hurricane by Everett Allen; The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede; Lucky Sweetbriar: Coast Guard Cutter Survives WWII, Okinawa, Kamikazes, Typhoons and More by Tanney Edward Oberg.

Volume 9, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2006)

  • High Times in the Dunes of Old Cape Cod: The 2006 USLSSHA Annual Conference by John J. Galluzzo
  • Why One Surfman Quit: The Louis Couls Affair, 1908-1909 by Eric C. Hartlep
  • A Forgotten Hero: C.C. Mauethrop and the Revenue Cutter Commodore Perry by Dennis L. Noble
  • No Lights, No Camera, Just Action! USLSSHA Members Act Out the Beach Apparatus Drill by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • To List or Not to List: The Isles of Shoals Life-Saving Station by John J. Galluzzo
  • Book Reviews: The Guardian (motion picture) by Touchstone Pictures; When Hull Freezes Over: Historic Winter Tales from the Massachusetts Shore by John J. Galluzzo; Images of America: Coast Guard City Base Elizabeth City by Air Station Elizabeth City Wardroom; Burning Cold: The Cruise Ship Prinsendam and the Greatest Sea Rescue of All Time by H. Paul Jeffers; The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, From the 18th Century to the Present Day by Bella Bathurst.
  • Museum Spotlight: The National Cryptologic Museum

Volume 9, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2006)

  • “I’d Rather Wear Out Than Rust Out”: Captain John Persons of Thunder Bay Island by Stephen D. Tongue
  • Powerful Seas Tear Tanker in Two: The Harrowing Coast Guard Rescue of the Chester Poling
  • Crew by Michael Tougias
  • Eugene O’Neill and His Cape Cod Home: Living in a Life-Saving Station by Leona Rust Egan
  • A Sandpounder’s Life: Dreadful Hardships of the Beach Patrol by Bob Trapani, Jr.
  • Outboarding School: Unique Opportunity for Coast Guard “Techs” by John J. Galluzzo
  • Hearing the President’s Call: One Woman’s Charge to Tell the USLSS Story by Debbie Allyn Jett
  • Book Reviews: So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death by Martha J. LaGuardia-Kotite; “Last One Out, Turn Off the Light!” (video) by Odonnell Entertainment; Desperate Hours: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria by Richard Goldstein; Another Side of World War II: A Coast Guard Lieutenant in the South Pacific edited by Julianna Fern Patten
  • Museum Spotlight: The Maritime Center at the Historic Coast Guard Station, St. Simons Island, Georgia

Volume 9, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (May 2006)

  • Just Give Me a Chance: Charles Jennings and the Wreck of the Alacrity by John J. Galluzzo
  • Endless Din of Horn and Storm by Bob Trapani, Jr.
  • The Lighthouse Service Fleet’s Last Rescue by Ralph Shanks, M.A.
  • Hungry Ocean Would Not Be Denied by Bob Trapani, Jr.
  • Fairs, Buffaloes and Heroes: The U.S. Life-Saving Service as Public Spectacle, Part II by William D. Peterson
  • Echoes From the Surf: Etrusco Remembered
  • Book Reviews: Historic Nantucket Lightships: New South Shoal, 1854-1896 by James W. Claflin; Lighthouses of New Jersey and Delaware: History, Mystery, Legends & Lore by Bob Trapani, Jr.; Images of America: Guarding Door County: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations by Stacy and Virginia Thomas; Images of America: Lighthouses and Lifesaving Stations of Virginia by Patrick Evans-Hylton; Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942 by Thaddeus Novak.
  • The 11th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association

Volume 8, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2006)

  • Fairs, Buffaloes and Heroes: The U.S. Life-Saving Service as Public Spectacle by William D. Peterson
  • “Sketch of the Life of Hon. Sumner I. Kimball” taken from the History of Sanford, Maine, 1900
  • In Safe Hands: Coxswain Brian Thomson and the Crew of Holyhead by Nicholas Leach
  • “Getting hit by a 20-foot wave feels like you just got hit by a semi truck”: Lengthy certification process makes surfmen a rare breed by Kara Hansen, reprinted with permission from The Daily Astorian of Astoria, Oregon
  • Echoes from the Surf: The Board of Life-Saving Appliances
  • Book Reviews: Breakthrough: The Story of Chatham’s North Beach by Timothy J. Wood; Hooligan Sailor: The Saga of One Coast Guardsman in World War II by Leon Fredrick; 1954 Historic Adventure of the Northwind by Phil Jaffe; Ten Hours Until Dawn: Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do by Michael Tougias
  • Museum Spotlight: The Trayser Museum of Coast Guard Heritage

Volume 8, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2005)

  • Back to Basics at Sleeping Bear: The 2005 USLSSHA Annual Conference by John J. Galluzzo
  • A Great Lakes Life-Saving Primer: Protecting Lake Superior by Thomas P. Ostrom
  • Once Home to Princes Among Men: Digging up the Past at Middle Island by Ryan Riordan
  • A Visit with our Friends at STANT St. Ignace, MI by John J. Galluzzo
  • Echoes from the Surf: Services of Crews (Miscellaneous)
  • Book Reviews: Bloody Waters by Captain John M. Waters, Jr., USCG; North Manitou Island: Between Sunrise and Sunset by Rita Hadra Rusco; The South Manitou Story by Gerald E. Crowner; Rescue at the Top of the World by Shawn Shallow; USCGC Eponyms by Charles B. Hathaway.
  • Museum Spotlight: CG 36500 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Volume 8, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2005)

  • Columbia River Gold Rush: The Rescue of the Rosecrans by Frederick Stonehouse
  • Caught in the Blizzard: Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do by Michael Tougias
  • Portrait of a Dying Breed: The Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge by Ensign Cara Blasko, USCG
  • Crossing the Line: The Story of Ocean City’s Jack Jernee by Fred Miller
  • Echoes From the Surf: Speaking Out on Behalf of Her Neighbors
  • Book Reviews: Ocean City: America’s Greatest Family Resort (The Making of America Series) by Fred Miller; Rogue Wave: The U.S. Coast Guard on and After 9/11 by Chief Petty Officer P.J. Capelotti, Ph.D., USCGR; The T.W. Lawson: The Fate of the World’s Only Seven-Masted Schooner by Thomas Hall
  • Museum Spotlight: Saving a 38-foot Picket Boat on Long Island

Volume 8, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (May 2005)

  • The Red Lifeboats by Dr. Dennis L. Noble, Ph.d
  • Rescue at Sea: Towards a Humanitarian Ideal by Clayton Evans
  • Protecting the Emerald Isle: The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Ireland by Nicholas Leach
  • Ships Fear Fire More than Water by Carolyn Matthews
  • You’re Only as Good as Your Crew by John J. Galluzzo
  • Book Reviews: The United States Coast Guard: 1790 to Present by Thomas P. Ostrom; New Jersey Shipwrecks: 350 Years in the Graveyard of the Atlantic by Margaret Thomas Buchholz; The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told edited by Joseph Cummins; Storm Warriors: Heroes of the Shipwreck Coast(DVD), directed by Scott Erlinder
  • Museum Spotlight: The Lifeboat Collection of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at the Historic Dockyards, Chatham by William D. Wilkinson

Volume 7, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2005)

  • Prey of the Storm: The Steamer Portland and the Gale of 1898 by Deborah Marx
  • Fueling the Northeast: Coal Carrying Schooners Bound for New England by Van R. Field
  • “A Hard Day on All of Us”: Indian River Station and the Wreck of Anna Murray by Bob Trapani, Jr.
  • Gold Medals on the Jersey Shore by Margaret T. Buchholz
  • Coast Guard Rescuers Recount Trip Into Harm’s Way by Lindsay Christians, San Luis Obispo Tribune
  • A Rich Family History: Captain Benjamin Rich and the Mass Humane Society by John J. Galluzzo
  • Echoes from the Surf: Early Watchman’s Clocks
  • Book Reviews: Images of America: Maritime South Haven, 1900-1950 by Michigan Maritime Museum; Rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard by Dennis L. Noble; The Last Run by Todd Lewan.
  • Museum Spotlight: The Battle for Ocean City

Volume 7, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2004)

  • USLSSHA Rocks Maine at the 2004 Annual Conference by John J. Galluzzo
  • Coast Guard Tape of Harrowing 1980 Rescue off Massachusetts Resurfaces by Captain W. Russell Webster, USCG (Retired)
  • “The Worst Days of a Bad Fall”: Captain Motley and the Surfmen of Middle Island, Michigan, November 1911 by Eric Hartlep
  • Dispatches from Hampton Roads: USLSSHA Attends the 7th Maritime Heritage Conference Photos by John J. Galluzzo
  • Christmas Echoes on Nantucket by Maurice Gibbs
  • Echoes from the Surf: The Tide is Ebbing
  • Book Reviews: Lanterns and Lifeboats, A History of Thunder Bay Island by Stephen D. Tongue; The Outlaw Sea, A World of Freedom, Chaos and Crime by William Langewiesche; Guardians of the Eighth Sea, a History of the U.S. Coast Guard on the Great Lakes by T. Michael O’Brien; All Available Boats: The Evacuation of Manhattan Island on September 11, 2001 by Mike Magee, M.D., Editor; Images of America: Ocean City Beach Patrol by Fred Miller
  • Museum Spotlight: Shore Village Museum

Volume 7, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2004)

  • Growing Pains and Politics: White Head Lifesaving Station, 1873-1878 by David Gamage
  • Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944 by Michael G. Walling
  • “Pounding Brass”: An Account of Coast Guard Radio Watchstanding During the Early 1950s by Frederick “Bud” Cooney
  • Previewing Images of America: New Jersey Coast Guard and Rumrunners by Van Field and John Galluzzo
  • Echoes From the Surf: The Seal of the Office of General Superintendent
  • Book Reviews: Historic Nantucket Lighthouses: Sankaty Head by James W. Claflin; Historic Cape Cod Lighthouses: Race Point by James W. Claflin; Images of America: Point Sur by Carol O’Neil; Heart of the Storm: My Adventures as a Helicopter Rescue Pilot and Commander by Colonel Edward Fleming; The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story by Alex R. Larzalere; Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944 by Michael G. Walling; Great Lakes Crime: Murder, Mayhem, Booze & Broads by Frederick Stonehouse.
  • Emergency Update: Tawas (MI) Station Nearing its End?

Volume 7 Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (May 2004)

  • Guest Editorial: Ralph Shanks
  • Responding to Shipwrecks: The U.S. Lighthouse and U.S. Life-Saving Services by Ralph Shanks
  • Adrift in the Aleutians: The Loss of the Revenue Cutter Tahoma by Steve Lloyd
  • The Lifesavers of Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay, Oregon by Dennis L. Noble
  • First Steps in Oregon: The Cape Arago Lifesaving Station by David Pinyerd
  • Echoes From the Surf: Gasoline Engines for Marine Purposes
  • Book Reviews: Out of the Fog: The Sinking of the Andrea Doria by Algot Mattson; The Colombo Bay by Richard Pollak; Cobb’s Island Virginia: The Last Sentinel by Ron M. Kagawa and J. Richard Kellam; Dead Men Tapping: The End of the Heather Lynne II by Kate Yeomans.

 

Volume 6, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2004)

  • Walking in Very Large Footsteps: Master Chief Jack Downey Receives the First Joshua James Keeper Award by Petty Officer Lauren Smith, USCG, introduction by Maurice Gibbs
  • A Day in the Life of Coast Guard Station Point Allerton by John J. Galluzzo
  • Asking the Big Question: Why Was There a United States Life-Saving Service? Part three by Captain Robert F. Bennett, USCG (Ret.)
  • “The Hero Coast Guard”: A Contemporary Tribute to Joshua James
  • Final Flight: The Retirement of the Flying Santa of the Lighthouses by John J. Galluzzo
  • Echoes From the Surf: Relative to Boating, Hunting, Fishing, Etc., by Lifesaving Crews
  • Book Reviews: Rescue at Sea: An International History of Lifesaving, Coastal Rescue Craft and Organizations by Clayton Evans; Indian River Life-Saving Station: Journey Along the Sands by Robert Trapani, Jr.; The Unforgiving Coast: Maritime Disasters of the Pacific Northwest by David H. Grover; Character in Action: The U.S. Coast Guard on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips with Admiral James M. Loy, USCG (Ret.); Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties by Eric Mills
  • Museum Spotlight: Hull Lifesaving Museum

Volume 6, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2003)

  • Still Standing: USLSSHA Visits the Life-Saving Stations of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland by John
  • Galluzzo
  • The First Rescue: The Wreck of the Sylvia C. Hall by CDR. John F. Ebersole, USCG (Ret.)
  • Asking the Big Question: Why Was There a U.S. Life-Saving Service? Part two by Capt. Robert F. Bennett
  • Discretion is the Better Part of Valor by Frederick T. Stonehouse
  • Echoes from the Surf: A Half-Dressed Surfman
  • Book Reviews: Wonderful Flying Machines: A History of U.S. Coast Guard Helicopters by Barrett Thomas Beard; Search and Rescue 2 (computer game) by Global Star Software, 2000; Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy on the High Seas by John S. Burnett; Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum by Edward T. O’Donnell.
  • Museum Spotlight: Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum

Volume 6, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (August 2003)

  • Shipwrecks on the Jersey Shore: The Henry R. Congdon and Mary F. Kelly by Margaret T. Buchholz
  • Asking the Big Question: Why Was There a U.S. Life-Saving Service? Part one by Capt. Robert F. Bennett
  • Leggings, Flat Hats, and Seabags: Coast Guard Boot Camp at Cape May, NJ, 1951 by Frederick “Bud” Cooney
  • New York Roots: The Life Saving Benevolent Association by Van Field
  • Annual Meeting Preview: Cape May, New Jersey
  • Book Reviews: Great Storms of the Jersey Shore by Larry Savadove and Margaret Thomas Buchholz; Heroic Rescues at Sea: True Stories of the Canadian Coast Guard by Carolyn Matthews; The Weather Channel: The Improbable Rise of a Media Phenomenon by Frank Batten with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank.
  • Museum Spotlight: CG 36500

Volume 6, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (May 2003)

  • Guest Editorial: Fred Stonehouse
  • Ordeal in the Ice: The 1936 Rescue at the Charlevoix, MI, Coast Guard Station by Geoffrey D. Reynolds
  • Time Takes Its Toll on Harbor Beach by Wayne Kadar
  • No Retreat: The Tale of a Great Lakes Family by Kay Richardson
  • Lawrence O. Lawson: An Extraordinary Keeper by Dennis L. Noble
  • Another Black Hole Filled: The Francis Metallic Surfboat by Frederick T. Stonehouse
  • Book Reviews: White Hurricane: A Great Lakes November Gale and America’s Deadliest Maritime Disasterby David G. Brown; Storm of the Century: New England’s Great Blizzard of 1978 by Christopher J. Haraden
  • Museum Spotlight: Michigan Maritime Museum

Volume 5, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (February 2003)

  • At Death’s Door: The 2002 Annual Meeting by John J. Galluzzo
  • Lifesaver by Dennis L. Noble
  • Powerless: The Wreck of the Robert E. Lee by John J. Galluzzo
  • Voices of Preservation: Wick York
  • Book Reviews: The Rescue of the Gale Runner: Death, Heroism and the United States Coast Guard by Dennis L. Noble; Commodore Ellsworth P. Bertholf: First Commandant of the Coast Guard by C. Douglas Kroll; Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833 by Charles Tyng; Atlantic Surfman by Edward A. Rand
  • Museum Spotlight: The Old Coast Guard Station at Virginia Beach, Virginia

Volume 5, Number 3 – Wreck & Rescue (November 2002)

  • When Harwich Had to Bury Seven Husbands by Theresa Barbo
  • The Pendleton Rescue by CAPT W. Russell Webster, USCG
  • OBX Odyssey by Jerry Biggs
  • Crossing the Pond by Dennis L. Noble
  • Book Reviews: California Light Stations and Other Aids to Navigation, c.1950 by John Twohy and Jan Mattson; Against the Tide: The Battle for America’s Beaches by Cornelia Dean; The Keeper of Lime Rock by Lenore Skomal; Captain Red by Russell Goldbaum; The Barque of Saviors by Russell Drumm; Rescue on the Outer Banks by Candace F. Ransom, illustrated by Karen Ritz; From Highland to Hammerhead by Charles B. Hathaway
  • Museum Spotlight: Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts

 

Volume 1, Number 18 – Wreck & Rescue (Winter 2001)

  • Big Shoes to Fill by John J. Galluzzo
  • A Cold Brook and a Fall Outing: USLSSHA 2001 by Jerry Biggs
  • The Lyle Gun as Musical Instrument by Donald L. Canney
  • A Motor Lifeboat in the Desert by Ralph Shanks
  • Book Reviews: Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Life-Savers by David Wright and David Zoby; Images of America: Lighthouses and Life Saving Along the Connecticut and Rhode Island Coast by James Claflin; Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker, U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935 by Donald L. Canney; Prints in the Sand: The U.S. Coast Guard Beach Patrol During World War II by Eleanor C. Bishop
  • Museum Spotlight: Kittery Point, Maine

Volume 1, Number 17 – Wreck & Rescue (Fall 2001)

  • New Year’s Eve, 1953 by Dennis L. Noble
  • A Brush With Coast Guard History: At Sea on February 19, 1952 by Bud Cooney
  • “Those Guys Got Plenty of Guts, Take it From Me”: Hilman J. Persson and the Rescue of the Crew of the
  • Trinidad by John J. Galluzzo
  • Book Reviews: The Preservation of Pre-World War Two Coast Guard Architecture in Oregon A Master’s Thesis by David A. Pinyerd
  • Museum Spotlight: Coast Guard Museum Northwest, Seattle, Washington

Number 16 – Wreck & Rescue (Spring 2001)

  • USCG Motor Lifeboat Capsizes on Columbia River Bar by CWO Mark Dobney, USCG
  • The Great Rum War on Long Island by Van R. Field
  • Lest We Forget the Sacrifices They Made, That Others Might Live by John J. Galluzzo
  • Book Reviews: United States Life-Saving Service in Michigan by William D. Peterson; Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
  • Museum Spotlight: The Scituate Maritime & Irish Mossing Museum, Massachusetts

Volume 1, Number 15 – Wreck & Rescue (Fall 2000)

  • Annual Meeting on the Great Lakes by John J. Galluzzo
  • William Douglas O’Connor: The Man Who Wrote the Annual Reports by Donna Hill
  • End of an Era by Dennis L. Noble
  • The Tragedy of Motor Lifeboat No. 36542 by Dewey Livingston
  • Point Reyes Coast Guard Station Restores Surfmen’s Cemetery by Ralph Shanks
  • Book Reviews: The Night the Fitz Went Down by Hugh E. Bishop in cooperation with Capt. Dudley Paquette; Lighthouse Keepers & Cutters by Frederick Stonehouse; Haunted Lakes II by Frederick Stonehouse; Guardians of New Jersey’s Shore: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations by David Veasey

Volume 1, Number 14 – Wreck & Rescue (Spring 2000)

  • Robert M. Small: The Training of a Life-Saving Service Keeper by Fred Stonehouse
  • Surfman William Drazel: Louisville Floating Life-Saving Station by John J. Galluzzo
  • On Location with Storm Warriors by Tom Garber
  • Captain Ted Richardson, 1922-2000 by Ralph Shanks
  • Book Reviews: Twelve Men Down: Massachusetts Sea Rescues, Old Coast Guard Stations
  • Volume Two: North Carolina, Lifeboat Sailors: The U.S. Coast Guard’s Small Boat Stations, A Life of Service: William Augustus Newell

Volume 1, Number 13 – Wreck & Rescue (Winter 2000)

  • A Sunday Evening in the Pacific Northwest by Dennis L. Noble
  • Gone but not Forgotten: A Great Lakes Life-Saving Station by William Peterson
  • Book Reviews: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Along the Maine and New Hampshire Coast by James Claflin;Hull and Nantasket Beach by The Committee for the Preservation of Hull’s History; Sink or Swim by Carole Boston Weatherford; Rescue From Grampa Woo by Joan Skelton

Volume 1, Number 12 – Wreck & Rescue (Fall 1999)

  • No Disappointment at Cape Disappointment: The USLSSHA Annual Meeting by Ralph Shanks
  • The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Maurice Gibbs
  • Ida Lewis: Wrecks and Rescues by Donna Hill
  • Preservation and Study of U.S. Coast Guard Lifeboat Stations by Dorothy Wilkinson

Volume 1, Number 11 – Wreck & Rescue (Summer 1999)

  • The Storm of the Century by John J. Galluzzo
  • An Interview with David Dobbins courtesy of Fred Stonehouse
  • The Strange Story of the Bark Elizabeth by Van R. Field
  • Found Heroes: The USCG Lifesaving Medals by Capt. W. Russell Webster, USCG
  • The Making of Storm Warriors by Tom Garber
  • Port Orford Lifeboat Station Listed on the National Register by Ralph Shanks
  • Book Review: Holly From Hatteras by Suzanne Tate

Volume 1, Number 10 – Wreck & Rescue (Winter/Spring 1999)

  • Eight Against Spencer: Individualism in the U.S. Life-Saving Service on Lake Superior by William Peterson
  • Bringing Life Back to the Indian River Inlet Life-Saving Station by Charity Shankle
  • An Outer Banks Outing by Kathleen B. Wyche
  • The Rescue of Chicamacomico by Drew Loizeaux
  • Book Reviews: Lighthouses and Life-Saving Along the Massachusetts Coast by James Claflin; Old Coast Guard Stations Volume One: Pope’s Island to False Cape by Richard L. Chenery, III

Volume 1, Number 9 – Wreck & Rescue (Fall 1998)

  • Joshua James and the Great Storm of November 1898 by John J. Galluzzo
  • The Anna Sophia by William P. Quinn
  • Lake Huron’s Ghostly Surfboat by Fred Stonehouse
  • The Exciting Coast Guard Years: Depoe Bay, Oregon by Ralph Shanks
  • Book Review: Wrecks and Rescues on Long Island by Van R. Field

Volume 1, Number 8 – Wreck & Rescue (Spring & Summer 1998)

  • A Life-Saving Station Adventure For You: The Popham Beach Bed & Breakfast by Ralph Shanks
  • David Atkins, Hero of Cape Cod by Donna Hill
  • “Get the 36 Boat Going, Now!” by Fred Stonehouse
  • Of Locomotives and Lifeboat Stations by Ralph Shanks
  • Book Review: Shipwreck Season by Donna Hill

Volume 1, Number 7 – Wreck & Rescue (Winter 1998)

  • Surfman Attacked and Robbed on Patrol by John J. Galluzzo
  • Rescued From a Wave-Swept Rock edited by Ralph Shanks
  • A New Life for an Old Surfboat by Michael Scherfenstein and Fred Gerard
  • Adventure on Nantucket and Tuckernuck Islands: The USLSSHA Annual Meeting by Ralph Shanks

Volume 1, Number 6 – Wreck & Rescue (Fall 1997)

  • “One of Nature’s Noblemen”: Keeper Walter Nelson Chase of Nantucket by Mary Miles with Maurice Gibbs
  • Coast Guard Children on Thunder Bay Island by Kay Richardson
  • The 26-foot, 8-inch Self-Bailing Self-Righting Self-Bailing, Pulling Lifeboat of the USLSS by William D.
  • Wilkinson
  • The Wreck of the Motorship E. Parks by Edwin Richardson edited by Jerry Biggs

Volume 1, Number 5 – Wreck & Rescue (Summer 1997)

  • The Life-Saving Guns of David Lyle by J. Paul Barnett
  • Henry J. Cleary, the Showman of the Service by Fred Stonehouse

Volume 1, Number 4 – Wreck & Rescue (Spring 1997)

  • Brave Men of Hull by Robert W. Haley
  • African Americans in the U.S. Life-Saving Service by William D. Peterson
  • The Keeper’s Wife Was a Ship Captain by Ralph Shanks
  • How Many People Will a Lifeboat Hold? by Ralph Shanks
  • Only Once on Lake Huron by Fred Stonehouse

Volume 1, Number 3 -Wreck & Rescue (Winter 1996-97)

  • A Grand Time on the Great Lakes by Ralph Shanks
  • A Cape Cod Shipwreck and Rescue by William P. Quinn
  • Surfman Versus Keeper by Dewey Livingston

Volume 1, Number 2 – Wreck & Rescue (Summer 1996)

  • Nantucket Life Saving Museum: Tales of a Maritime Crossroads by Maurice E. Gibbs
  • An Incident at a Life-Saving Station by Dennis L. Noble
  • Braver Men Never Manned a Lifeboat: A Great Lakes Story by Fred Stonehouse

Volume 1, Number 1 – Wreck & Rescue (Spring 1996)

  • Founding of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association by Ralph Shanks
  • The Gold Medal Shipwreck by Fred Stonehouse
  • The Face in the Rigging by Maria Wagenbrenner
  • Stairs of a Thousand Tears: The Port Orford Lifeboat Station by Henry Kunowski

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We have an  annual meeting  where we travel to various locations throughout the U.S. 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 U.S. Coast Guard efforts of saving lives. It is truly a unique gathering for anyone interested in learning about early life saving efforts.