Check out our new Entry Sign. Coastal Impressions made us a new sign for our Rt 12 frontage. It has a “Marquee feature” that will let us list current and up-coming events. Board VP Mike Daugherty installed the sign last Sunday, and the RWS Civic Association contributed financial support to defray some of the costs. Come [...]
Widely known for its rich history of saving souls in peril from the sea the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station has, for many years, provided a re-enactment of the beach apparatus rescue drill, recognized as an integral part of the Life-Saving Service. This public demonstration has, unfortunately, been curtailed for the past few years as the USCG reconsidered its [...]
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Chicamacomico Site Manager Dinah Beveridge hands a Don Bryant Elizabeth II Print to Jaye Massecar Operations Director of Friends of Elizabeth II. Chicamacomico had come into possession of a number of Don Bryant prints most having to do with the Life Saving Service along the coast of Dare County. In reviewing the prints Dinah [...]
“I hereby declare that the Keel of Midgett (WMSL 757) has been Truly and Fairly Laid,” Jazania O’Neal of Rodanthe announced at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, MS. The Authentication of the Keel ceremony for the United States Coast Guard National Security Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) was held on Friday, January 27. Eleven descendants of its Namesake, [...]
Today, November 29, 2016, about 60 USCG men & women (Officers and Chiefs) from Station Elizabeth City attended a team building exercise, called “Eagles and Anchors”, at Chicamacomico Historic Life Saving Station. Providing them the opportunity to get in touch with their history and heritage was our pleasure. USCG at Chicamacomico
“Thanks to the generosity of our visitors & neighbors at our “Season Ending Festivities”, we were able to deliver 3 lg fish boxes of food and $311 to our local food pantry.” “For your shopping convenience, the gift shop will be open Tuesday thru Saturday during Dec up to and including Christmas Eve from 10AM to [...]
RODANTHE, NC, July 11, 2016 – The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station is excited to announce another summer program beginning this Wednesday, July 13th! JR Shanty Co. will be performing "Sea Shanties and Songs of the Sea" July 13, July 27 and August 10 on the porch of the 1911 building from 2-2:45pm. JR Shanty Co. is an [...]
RODANTHE, NC, July 1, 2016 – The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station is excited to announce another summer program! Commander Carl Smith, USCG (retired) will give a talk at 2 p.m. each Thursday in July in the 1874 Chicamacomico boathouse on the origins of the Lifesaving Service and its evolution into the modern Coast Guard. He will also [...]
