Record #:

43333

Author(s):

Lacy, Bridgette A.

Abstract:

""After Richard Etheridge led an all African American lifesaving crew at Pea Island on a daring rescue in 1896, for the next six decades African American commanders served at the station." Etheridge was a Civil War veteran and the first Black person to be appointed Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Service station. A schooner, the E.S. Newman was caught in an October 1896 storm.

Source:

Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue 1, Spring 2022, p6-13

Subject(s):

Lifesaving service--North Carolina; African Americans--Dare County--Lifesaving Service; Etheridge, Richard, 1842-1900