CAPE HENLOPEN HISTORY
COAST GUARD STATIONS ON
DELAWARE'S COAST 1920
In addition to the
lighthouses and the Radio Compass Station the U. S. has six Coast
Guard
Stations one either side
of Henlopen Light and four farther down the 37 miles of coast,
patrolled at night by 60
Coast Guard , Ten men serve each station. One at each station
takes his turn in the
lookout, scanning the sea for distress signals. Each station is
fitted with
a self bailing, self
righting lifeboat . During the patrols surfmen find lost children,
bodies,
trunks washed ashore, a
are called upon to save bathers to far out to make shore.
Abstract: Baltimore Sun,
November 14, 1920 by Har
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