This Rescue Boat

This rescue boat is a surfboat-style craft rescued in 2006 from a location in Brewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts by Stone Harbor Post #331 American Legion members. It is believed to be a surfboat that saw service at the Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts Life-Saving Station in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It is also believed to be the same as or similar in design to an 1888-style surfboat used at the Tathams, or Stone Harbor, Life-Saving Station during the same period. Rescue boats assigned to the Stone Harbor Station included the Squan pulling surfboat in 1874, the Long Branch pulling surfboat in 1883, the Mayville pulling surfboat in 1887, the Beebe McLellan pulling and sailing surfboat No. 149 in 1888, the Beebe McLellan motor surfboat No. 1224 in 1912, the Type H pulling and sailing surfboat No. 2908 in 1926, and the Type S motor surfboat No. 4495 in 1934.

Stone Harbor, New Jersey · United States