The Chicamacomico Team at the Wood Island Life-Saving Station in Maine. Photo from John Griffin. Volunteers are listed below. A team of local volunteers who perform the weekly Beach Apparatus Drill reenactment at the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station in Rodanthe gave a special performance 700 miles away from home at the annual U.S. Life-Saving Service [...]
The Beach Apparatus Drill reenactment team. Photo by Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site. The volunteers who perform the weekly Beach Apparatus Drill reenactment at the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site in Rodanthe are taking their impressive outdoor show on the road. Larry Grubbs works to load the 1,000-pound beach cart into a [...]
Cadet is rescued Those were the words used by Master Chief Lyn Dupree, (USCG ret.) to describe the last day of the Coast Guard’s Jr. ROTC Leadership Academy held June 12 – 16 at Base Elizabeth City. 70 Cadets, (high school students), from Delaware, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina had spent the week [...]
Volunteers take visitors back in time to the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station’s heyday during the Beach Apparatus Drill. Photo by Don Bowers The Lost Colony in Manteo may be the best-known live entertainment option on the Outer Banks, but Hatteras Island has its own historic outdoor drama that has been a weekly event for decades, and which [...]
The first-ever Shuck Hatteras Festival is coming to the Tri-villages on December 16-17, and the event is a shellabration of community, music, and of course, oysters. The festivities kick off on Friday, December 16, at the Cape Hatteras/Outer Banks KOA Resort with live music by renowned local band The Yacht Dogs, and local delicacies by Cousin’s [...]
Chicamacomico Station built in 1911 Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station and Museum is pleased to be nominated for Best Tourist Attraction in the Coastland Times Annual “Best of” Contest. You can vote for us (We hope you do!) at the Coastland Times and scroll to “Tourist Attraction” under the Activities tab. The contest will close on [...]
Sailor gets rescued Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station Museum is the most completely restored Lifesaving Station in the United States. It is committed to preserving the buildings and the stories of the men who served here and in other stations along the coast of Hatteras Island, Dare County, and North Carolina. The descendants of the surfmen [...]
Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station and Museum First Flight Chiefs Drill Team Chesapeake Regional Chiefs Drill Team A lifesaving re-enactment drill that is not on a Thursday at 2pm? Yes, kind of. More like a sand flying, rope towing, gun shooting battle royal of North vs. South that went down October 7th at the [...]
Hard-fought Battle of Rescuing on behalf of the Rescuers - A century after being commissioned in December of 1874, the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station was in rough shape and in need of a life-saving of its own. The facility had been abandoned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1950’s and, if left to the harsh [...]
Hear CHA Board President Larry Grubbs narrate NBCLX's Greg Bledsoe's piece on the Graveyard of the Atlantic. This undertaking was part of Greg's Family Geography Project. The ‘Graveyard of the Atlantic' Is Still Wrecking Boats Off the Outer Banks of NC READ MORE...
