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Lifesaving Station Logbooks, 1874-1942These series consist of logbooks containing daily entries for the lifesaving stations in the Cleveland, Jacksonville, Norfolk, and New Orleans Districts. The logbook pages consist of a form with space for mandatory entries such as weather and surf conditions, number and types of ships and vessels sighted, lookouts and patrols stood, crew absences and substitutions, vessels boarded and reported, shipwrecks and assistance rendered, lives saved, cases of resuscitation, and daily crew drills. Routine and mundane activities such as housekeeping tasks, mail runs, surf-boat repairs, raising and lowering the flag, acquiring fuel for the lights, and testing the Lyle gun were recorded on a separate page. Major rescues or significant events that needed additional space to record information often had pages inserted for a specific date in the logbook.
Cleveland District
Louisville, 1881-1941, 29 Boxes
Jacksonville District
Bethel Creek, 1879-1929
Biscayne, 1888-1927
Boynton Motor Cycle, 1918-1919
Bulow Beach, 1902-1929
Cape Malabar, 1886-1891
Chester Shoal, 1886-1940
Flagler Beach, 1929-1940
Fort Lauderdale, 1883-1926
Fort Pierce, 1922-1941
Gilbert’s Bar, 1878-1941
Indian River Inlet, 1886-1938
Jupiter Inlet, 1886-1900
Lake Worth, 1920-1940
Morris Island, 1887-1895
Mosquito Lagoon, 1886-1939
Orange Grove, 1883-1897
Ponce de Leon, 1917-1941
St. Simon’s Island, 1937-1941
Smiths Creek, 1886-1902
Sullivan’s Island, 1895-1941
Norfolk District
Big Kennakeet, 1879-1942, 29 Boxes
Bodie Island, 1874-1937, 27 Boxes
Bogue Inlet, 1905-1941, 20 Boxes
Caffey’s Inlets, 1874-1942, 29 Boxes
Cape Fear, 1882-1937, 25 Boxes
Cape Hatteras, 1883-1941, 27 Boxes
Cape Lookout, 1888-1941, 26 Boxes
Chicamoconico, 1874-1942, 20 Boxes
Core Bank, 1896-1940, 22 Boxes
Creed’s Hill, 1879-1937, 25 Boxes
Currituck Beach, 1874-1937, 27 Boxes
Currituck Inlet, 1879-1902, 8 Boxes
Durrants, 1880-1937, 25 Boxes
Fort Macon, 1904-1942, 21 Boxes
Gull Shoal, 1879-1937, 26 Boxes
Hatteras Inlet, 1902-1941, 21 Boxes
Isle of Wight, 1898-1937, 20 Boxes
Kill Devil Hill, 1879-1941, 28 Boxes
Kitty Hawk Beach, 1875-1937, 26 Boxes
Little Kinnekeet, 1874-1938, 27 Boxes
Nags Head, 1874-1941, 28 Boxes
New Inlet, 1883-1916, 12 Boxes
Oak Island, 1888-1942, 25 Boxes
Ocracoke, 1883-1941, 27 Boxes
Oregon Inlet, 1880-1942, 28 Boxes
Paul Gamiel’s Hill, 1878-1937, 25 Boxes
Pea Island, 1880-1942, 26 Boxes
Penny’s Hill, 1902-1937, 18 Boxes
Portsmouth, 1894-1938, 21 Boxes
Poyner’s Hill, 1878-1937, 24 Boxes
Tommy’s Hummock, 1879-1880, 15 Boxes
Wash Woods, 1879-1942, 14 Boxes
New Orleans District
Santa Rosa, 1886-1941 (Florida), 26 Boxes