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LIFE SAVING SERVICE AND COAST GUARD

The 1886 Volunteer Life Saving Crew at Fairport Station is pictured here, from left to right, as follows: Knute Joles, James Merrill, Alva Snell, Orin Holley, Capt. George Francis Babcock, John Webster, William Henry, and Mose Duncan.

Fairport Life Saving Station, c. 1910, was originally on the Fairport side of Grand River. During the winter of 1878, a building was drawn by horses over the ice-covered river to the west side of the river. Later, on June 28, 1878, Ferris & Garfield moved the rest of the buildings at a cost of $495.

A crew trains at the Fairport Life Saving Station, June 23, 1909. Notice the ladies with their parasols.

Capt. Rasmussen and the Life Saving Crew pose at the Fairport Station, c. 1910. The Lyle gun and shot line in the foreground is identical to the one displayed in our museum.

Here is an undated photo of U.S. Coast Guard crew members.

This postcard view of the harbor area shows Capt. Nils Rasmussen and school Supt. T.W. Byrns on the right and the Cantilever crane on the left.

The Life Saving Station, established in Fairport in 1876, hosts these sailors, c. 1900.

The first U.S. Coast Guard crew assigned to Fairport replaced the Life Saving Service in 1915. In 1939, they also replaced the U.S. Lighthouse Service. This picture shows the addition made to the U.S.C.G. station in 1938.

The Fairport station was used as a training center for the Coast Guard during World War II. Notice the guard tower.

Pictured here is the Fairport Harbor Coast Guard Station and its patrol boat, which serves the area.

This is the U.S. Coast Guard ice cutter Katma.