Mar 23, 2021 | Weekly Note
Watch for the story of Martha Coston, who developed the signal flares that are still used by the US Navy today. After finding earlier works of her deceased husband, Coston spent ten years testing and refining her process of night flares before patenting it in 1859. If...
Aug 24, 2020 | Weekly Note
Three tales of “Comical Rescues” from the Ocean City Life Saving Station including one about the surfmen in a low-tech row boat who rescued a high-tech Navy Submarine stranded on the sand bar in the Great Egg Harbor...
Aug 17, 2020 | Weekly Note
Ocean City Life Saving Station tales of daily life of the Surfmen and commonly asked questions of...
Aug 10, 2020 | Weekly Note
Watch for some great explanations of the various types of rescue equipment used and on display at the Ocean City NJ Life Saving...
Aug 3, 2020 | Weekly Note
The Natucket 26 hour Rescue – Walter N. Chase and his six man Coskata life saving crew battled heavy seas to rescue A British three masted schooner, H.P. Kirkham, sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday, January 16, 1892, bound for New York....
Jul 27, 2020 | Weekly Note
The following is an excerpt from a recently discovered unpublished work, written by one of the surfmen at The Ocean City Life Saving Station who witnessed the wreck of the 329 foot 4-masted sailing ship called the Sindia in December of 1901. “It is believed by old...
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