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The following is an excerpt from a recently discovered unpublished work, written by one of the surfmen at The Ocean City Life Saving Station who witnessed the wreck of the 329 foot 4-masted sailing ship called the Sindia in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...
Jul 20, 2020 | Weekly Note
Traveling the Oceans was a way of life in the later 1800’s. The hazards from this form of travel made the Lifesaving Service...
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