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James Pine was a vice admiral in the United States Coast Guard and Superintendent of the United States Coast Guard Academy.
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The United States Life-Saving Service was a United States government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers. It began i
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…Fanning (DD-37), the USS Wainwright (DD-62), the USCGC Itasca and the USCGC George M. Bibb (WPG-31). In 1939, the Revenue Cutter Service merged with the United States Life-Saving Service to form the Coast Guard. Pine became Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy in 1940. While there, he received the Legion of Merit for his performance…
The Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station. The Station was in use from 1832 until the 1940s. It was demolished by 1949.
1906 postcard captioned, The start of the life-boat, Cape Cod
Thomas Nast 1877 political cartoon: Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money".
The men of the Kitty Hawk Life-Saving Station, 1900