The U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association (USLSSHA) is an organization dedicated to preserving the history of the US Life Saving Service and early US Coast Guard.
No other group of historic American buildings is more endangered than our life-saving and lifeboat stations. To a far greater extent even than lighthouses, life-saving stations are still being lost and falling into tragic disrepair.
The USLSSHA is dedicated to providing communication among many preservation-minded individuals and organizations regarding such things as saving stations and preserving artifacts.
Check out our information-packed magazine, Wreck & Rescue Journal, detailing the many accounts of shipwrecks, saving lives, and preservation updates, among many other things. Members receive this intriguing magazine quarterly. We also publish all breaking news alerts on our facebook page to update our members on matters at all times.
We encourage you to join the organization today, get involved, and help save our history.
The association is a national nonprofit (501c3) organization dedicated to preserving America's fast-vanishing lifesaving stations and early Coast Guard lifeboat stations.
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Our First Traveling Exhibit
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We've designed our first Life-Saving Service themed traveling exhibit, on the Board of Life-Saving Appliances and the many outlandish life-saving tools they reviewed in the late 1800s. For information on the exhibit and how to bring it to your community click here.
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1897 Long Branch Boathouse Destoryed by Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy destroyed the last remaining historic U.S. Life-Saving Service building that remained on site on October 29th 2012. The 1897 Boathouse was reduced to a pile rubble after hurricane force winds and storm surge took the building down. In May of 2012 after years of speculation and controversy, the 1876 and the 1903 Port Huron Style Stations were moved to private property of the developer Douglas Jemal at 900 Ocean Avenue. If the buildings would not have been moved in May, they most likely would have not survived the storm. The 1876 building is being used as a pool house and plans are not set yet for the Port Huron style station as reported in various media outlets.
Please see our endangered stations page for information about other threatened stations. At this time, all other stations have survived the storm structurally. Some have had minor flooding and sand encased around them, but are still standing. |
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Rescue: True Stories of the U.S. Life-Saving Service
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We've just released our second compendium of the best of Wreck & Rescue Journal, Rescue: True Stories of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, published by Avery Color Studios.
Rescue features original articles by the country's leading experts in the field of search and rescue history: Fred Stonehouse, Dennis L. Noble, John Galluzzo and many more. In all, seventeen contributors helped create this celebration of the history of the United States Life-Saving Service.
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View the Trailer for Ocean Keeper
The new film about the Amagansett Life-Saving Station is here! Check out the trailer below, and then head to www.oceankeeperthemovie.com for more information.
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Delaware Seashore State Park Job Announcement
Historical Interpreter
Delaware Seashore State Park is seeking a creative and motivated person to help manage interpretive programs at the Indian River Life-Saving Station Museum.
Schedule is as follows: Part time schedule for May - September is 30+ hours per week including some weekend and evening hours. October - April is 20+ hours per week including weekend and evening hours.
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