Coast Guard Cutters on the Great Lakes

historic site

Three red buoys and signboard

Material
steel
Inscription
Until the 1930's the Coast Guard surfmen were shore based, equipped only with oarpowered surfboats to rescue shipwrecked seamen. As steel hulled steam vessels replaced the wooden schooners, more and more wrecks occurred in mid-Lake far away from...
DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4919:2019:57
June solstice06:0620:4521:29
September equinox07:3319:0719:44
December solstice08:1416:2717:14

Local time (America/Detroit).

43.06023, -86.24046

Elevation 178 m (modelled from terrain)

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