Robbins Reef Light Station, c. 1951
USCGC Katherine Walker, the United States Coast Guard coastal buoy tender named after Walker.
Keeper-class cutter
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The Keeper class of coastal buoy tenders consists of fourteen ships built for and operated by the United States Coast Guard. The ships were launched between 1995 and 1999 and all remain in active serv
Katherine Walker
…clean, so that New York Harbor might be safe for ships that pass in the night." She is interred in Ocean View Cemetery. A United States Coast Guard coastal buoy tender is named for her. In 2009, the government declared Robbins Reef Light "surplus property", and although the Bayonne Economic Development Corporation…
USCGC Henry Blake, the 13th Keeper-class ship launched
The bridge aboard a Keeper-class ship
USCGC Marcus Hanna breaking ice near Boston
USCGC Ida Lewis in New York Harbor