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Items associated with name 'United States Life-Saving Service'
Reports from the Ocean City Life-Saving Station
by North Beach Life-Saving Station (1878-1916)
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
The collection offers a glimpse into the functionality of two United States Life-Saving Stations, one of the predecessors to the modern U.S. Coast Guard, on Maryland’s Atlantic coast. The collection includes the Keeper’s Reports from the Ocean City Life-Saving Station in Ocean City, Maryland and Wreck Reports from the North Beach Life-Saving Station on the Maryland portion of Assateague Island. The Keeper’s Reports offer a record of day to day duties in the early years of the Ocean City Station while the Wreck Reports document rescues and shipwrecks off Assateague Island in the early part of the twentieth century and the transition of the Life-Saving Service to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915.
US Life-Saving Service papers
by Wimbrow, Thomas D. (1987 – 2015)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
US Life-Saving Service papers document the history of the U.S. Life-Saving Service. The five articles in the collection were published in the Ocean City Museum Society's quarterly newsletter the "Scuttlebutt" from 2014-2015 written by Thomas Wimbrow. In addition, a copy of the Winter 1987 Prologe magazine from the National Archives delves into the history of the US Life-Saving Service.