US Life Saving-Service Heritage Association

Links

	Youth Hostels In LSS Boats and Stations
	Truro, MA. Youth Hostel Nantucket Island, MA.Youth Hostel

	Links of Interest
	US Life-Saving Service Markers Treasury Historical Association U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office U.S. Coast Guard Magazine U.S. Coast Guard History FAQ U.S. Coast Guard Museum Coast Guard Channel Foundation for Coast Guard History Coast Guard Tug Foundation Fred's Place: the place to meet old shipmates Royal National Lifeboat Institution United States Lighthouse Society Middle Island, MI LSS Field Station Archeology Beach Bum Life Saving Service Information Fire on the Beach Robert E. Lee Disaster Memorial

Photo Above: Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, 1917.
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From 1906 to 1933, the Yaquina Bay Life-Saving Station was located at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse. The lighthouse had been built in 1871, but was decommissioned in 1874. The Yaquina Bay life-savers gladly moved in, as the lighthouse's location was far superior to their life-saving station on South Beach. This use of a lighthouse as a life-saving station is the only known instance in the United States. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard.)