USLSS Publications

Join us and receive our quarterly, Wreck & Rescue, the journal of the U. S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association. Our latest issue,

Wreck & Rescue, Volume 10, Number 1

If These Walls Could Talk: Rediscovering a Halfway House on Cape Cod by BMCS David Considine, USCG
A Bittersweet Story: Reminiscences of Life Aboard USCGC Bittersweet by Frederick “Bud” Cooney
A Long Tradition of Service: The Wickhams of Wexford and Rosslare Harbor, Ireland by Nicholas Leach
Surf Bathing and Life-Saving in Australia: Origins and Beginnings, Part 2 by Sean Brawley
So Hard to Find Good Help: Part 3 of a 3 Part Series on the Isles of Shoals Life-Saving Station by John Galluzzo
Echoes From the Surf: Finding John Faunce
Book Reviews: Lighthouses of Maryland and Virginia: History, Mystery, Legends and Lore; Images of America: Maritime Grand Haven: Coast Guard City, U.S.A.; The U.S.C.G. on the Great Lakes: A History; Images of America: Cana Island Lighthouse; Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam; “Friends in Peace and War”: The Russian Navy’s Landmark Visit to Civil War San Francisc
Museum Spotlight: USCGC Ingham

Wreck & Rescue. Volume 9, Number 4

What Signals Do You Have?: Signal Systems of the United States Life-Saving Service 1871-1915 by Alison W. Ewing
Surf-bathing and Life-saving in Australia: Origins and Beginnings, Part 1 by Sean Brawley
Winter Surf Puts Would-Be Heroes to the Test by Nancy Bartley, Reprinted with permission from the Seattle Times
Echoes from the Surf: Wig-Wag, Who Won?
Book Reviews: The Great Hurricane: 1938; A Wind to Shake the World: The Story of the 1938 Hurricane; The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland; Lucky Sweetbriar: Coast Guard Cutter Survives WWII, Okinawa, Kamikazes, Typhoons and More.

Wreck & Rescue. Volume 9, Number 3

High Times in the Dunes of Old Cape Cod: The 2006 USLSSHA Annual Conference by John J. Galluzzo
Why One Surfman Quit: The Louis Couls Affair, 1908-1909 by Eric C. Hartlep
A Forgotten Hero: C.C. Mauethrop and the Revenue Cutter Commodore Perry by Dennis L. Noble
No Lights, No Camera, Just Action! USLSSHA Members Act Out the Beach Apparatus Drill by Debbie Allyn Jett
To List or Not to List: The Isles of Shoals Life-Saving Station by John J. Galluzzo
Book Reviews: The Guardian (motion picture); When Hull Freezes Over: Historic Winter Tales from the Massachusetts Shore; Images of America: Coast Guard City Base Elizabeth City; Burning Cold: The Cruise Ship Prinsendam and the Greatest Sea Rescue of All Time; The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, From the 18th Century to the Present Day.
Museum Spotlight: The National Cryptologic Museum

Wreck & Rescue. Volume 9, Number 2

“I’d Rather Wear Out Than Rust Out”: Captain John Persons of Thunder Bay Island by Stephen D. Tongue
Powerful Seas Tear Tanker in Two: The Harrowing Coast Guard Rescue of the Chester Poling Crew by Michael Tougias
Eugene O’Neill and His Cape Cod Home: Living in a Life-Saving Station by Leona Rust Egan
A Sandpounder’s Life: Dreadful Hardships of the Beach Patrol by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Outboarding School: Unique Opportunity for Coast Guard “Techs” by John J. Galluzzo
Hearing the President’s Call: One Woman’s Charge to Tell the USLSS Story by Debbie Allyn Jett
Book Reviews: So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death; “Last One Out, Turn Off the Light!”, video; Desperate Hours: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria; Another Side of World War II: A Coast Guard Lieutenant in the South Pacific
Museum Spotlight: The Maritime Center at the Historic Coast Guard Station, St. Simons Island, Georgia

Volume 9, Number 1

Just Give Me a Chance: Charles Jennings and the Wreck of the Alacrity by John J. Galluzzo
Endless Din of Horn and Storm by Bob Trapani, Jr.
The Lighthouse Service Fleet's Last Rescue by Ralph Shanks, M.A.
Hungry Ocean Would Not Be Denied by Bob Trapani, Jr.
Fairs, Buffaloes and Heroes: The U.S. Life-Saving Service as Public Spectacle, Part II by William D. Peterson
Echoes From the Surf: Etrusco Remembered
Book Reviews:
- Historic Nantucket Lightships: New South Shoal, 1854-1896;
- Lighthouses of New Jersey and Delaware: History, Mystery, Legends & Lore;
- Images of America: Guarding Door County:
- Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations; Images of America: Lighthouses and Lifesaving Stations of Virginia; Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942
The 11th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association

Volume 8, Number 4, featured:

Fairs, Buffaloes and Heroes: The U.S. Life-Saving Service as Public Spectacle by William D. Peterson
“Sketch of the Life of Hon. Sumner I. Kimball” taken from the History of Sanford, Maine, 1900
In Safe Hands: Coxswain Brian Thomson and the Crew of Holyhead by Nicholas Leach
“Getting hit by a 20-foot wave feels like you just got hit by a semi truck”: Lengthy certification process makes surfmen a rare breed by Kara Hansen, reprinted with permission from The Daily Astorian of Astoria, Oregon
Echoes from the Surf: The Board of Life-Saving Appliances
Book Reviews: Breakthrough: The Story of Chatham’s North Beach; Hooligan Sailor: The Sage of One Coast Guardsman in World War II; 1954 Historic Adventure of the Northwind; Ten Hours Until Dawn: Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
Museum Spotlight: The Trayser Museum of Coast Guard Heritage

Volume 8, Number 3, featured:

Back to Basics at Sleeping Bear: The 2005 USLSSHA Annual Conference by John J. Galluzzo
A Great Lakes Life-Saving Primer: Protecting Lake Superior by Thomas P. Ostrom
Once Home to Princes Among Men: Digging up the Past at Middle Island by Ryan Riordan
A Visit with our Friends at STANT St. Ignace, MI by John J. Galluzzo
Echoes from the Surf: Services of Crews (Miscellaneous)
Book Reviews: The South Manitou Story; Bloody Waters; North Manitou Island: Between Sunrise and
Sunset; Rescue at the Top of the World; USCGC Eponyms.
Museum Spotlight: CG 36500 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

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