Historic Structure Report Bodie Island Coast Guard Station

Author : Joseph K. Oppermann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266842699
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Bodie Island Coast Guard Station, Historic Structure Report, 2005 (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph K. Oppermann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bodie Island Coast Guard Station, Historic Structure Report, 2005 Travel by sea along the Eastern seaboard of the United States can be especially troublesome, but no section more so than the Outer Banks off North Carolina. The strong currents that allow ships to travel quickly also bring them close to shore. Shifting sands and notoriously rapid changes in weather have wrecked many a ship, thus earning the early moniker the graveyard of the Atlantic. Further north the conditions are not quite so severe, but can be treacherous nonetheless. Near the major ports of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, private groups formed as early as the 17803 to provide assistance to seafarers in danger. There were many public outcries for a nationally coordinated rescue effort, until in 1848 a New Jersey representative secured from Congress a allocation for a variety of assistance. As a result, eight stations were constructed there under the supervision of the United States Treasury Department; the federal government had officially become involved. Additional allocations followed rapidly, expanding the financial assistance to include states along the lower Atlantic shore as well as the Gulf. Soon, the life-saving Service within the Department of Treasury developed a prototype station design. In addition to keeper's and crew's quarters, a self-contained boat room for a lifeboat was a standard feature. Improvements were incorporated as new station types evolved adding an open observation deck to monitor the coastline then replacing it with an enclosed tower in a later type. During the early years, there was a variety of ancillary structures about the site including privies, water tanks and kitchen buildings. In North Carolina, the first stations built were the 1874 Type. Seven of these compact, two-story Carpenter Gothic style buildings were stretched out along the coast. Then in 1878-79, eleven of the 1876 Type stations were added as infill between the earlier stations, establishing a pattern of five to seven miles between stations. One of the 1876 Type stations is the Bodie Island Life Saving Station, then known as Tommy's Hummock Station. It was replaced by the much larger, more modern Chatham Type station built a short distance away in 1925. The new station, the last design type developed by the life-saving Service, featured such amenities as indoor plumbing a self-contained kitchen, and electric lighting. The United States Coast Guard, having absorbed the life-saving Service in 1915, was the administrating federal agency. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.