U.S. Coast Guard History Program

Station Nome, Alaska

Coast Guard Station #335

Location: At Nome, Alaska; 64-30' 00"N x 165-23' 00"W Date of Conveyance 1905

Station Built: 1905 Fate: Discontinued in 1949

Remarks:

Owing to the urgent demand for services of a life-saving crew, a vacant building on the government reservation there was turned over to the service.

Keepers:

Thomas A. Ross was appointed keeper on 15 APR 1907 and served in that capacity until retiring on FEB 1 1939.

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Photography:

Life-Saving Station, Nome, Alaska, July, 1906

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Nome’s crew

USRC Bear off Nome, no date.

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U.S. Coast Guard Station Nome, Alaska.

Sources: Station History File, CG Historian’s Office Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection. Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996. U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.

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