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    Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was the first life-saving station in the...
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    reconnected with Hatteras. Pea Island was home to the Pea Island Life-Saving Station, the first U.S. Coast Guard life-saving station to have an all African-American...
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    Joshua James (lifesaver) Lifesaving Medal Norwegian Lady Statues Pea Island Life-Saving Station Seatack, Virginia United States Coast Guard History and Heritage...
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  • (June 25, 1915 – June 28, 2006) was a member of the all-black Pea Island Life-Saving Station along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, US, from 1935 to 1938...
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    appointed a locally recognized surfman, Richard Etheridge as the Pea Island Life-Saving Station head keeper. On 1 July 1885, he was assigned to USRC Colfax...
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    (90) with a dominant vegetation form of coastal prairie (20). Pea Island Life-Saving Station "USDA Interactive Plant Hardiness Map". United States Department...
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  • William Charles Bowser (1915–2006), member of the all-black Pea Island Life-Saving Station This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the...
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    the Gold Lifesaving Medal to the African American crew of the Pea Island Life-Saving Station for a daring rescue in 1896 near the Outer Banks of North Carolina...
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    Rodanthe, North Carolina (category Hatteras Island)
    settlement of Chicamacomico. Rodanthe includes the original Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station, decommissioned in 1954, but now a museum. Rodanthe is served by...
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    Joshua James (lifesaver) (category United States Life-Saving Service personnel)
    U.S. LifeSaving Station keeper. He was a famous and celebrated commander of civilian life-saving crews in the 19th century, credited with saving over...
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    Meekins, Lewis Wescott, Stanley Wise, and William Irving of the Pea Island Life-Saving Station, for rescue of the crew from the E.S. Newman on 11 October 1896...
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    life and property from shipwreck ... ." During that same year, the Massachusetts Humane Society received funds from Congress for life-saving stations...
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    Flyer. Retrieved September 1, 2020. Stover, Douglas (2008). "Pea Island Life-Saving Station" (PDF). NPS History. Wright Faladé, David (August 24, 2020)...
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    all Life-Saving Service stations. In 1880, he was assigned to investigate the sinking of the British barque M & S Henderson near the Pea Island Life-Saving...
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  • Inlet Station is a historic lifesaving station located near Rodanthe, Dare County, North Carolina. It was built in 1897 by the United States Life-Saving Service...
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    Georgia. On September 8, 1930, Samuels was assigned to Pea Island Life-Saving Station, a lifeboat station manned totally by African-Americans, on the Outer...
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    series of life-saving stations were established on Sable Island by the governor of Nova Scotia, John Wentworth, in 1801. The rescue station began the...
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    United States Coast Guard History and Heritage Sites (category United States Life-Saving Service)
    "Wood Island Life Saving Station Association". Wood Island Life Saving Station Association. Retrieved May 7, 2022. "Untitled". U.S. Lifes-Saving Service...
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    station, died while attempting a rescue near the Pea Island Life-Saving Station at North Carolina. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Life Saving Medal...
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    same time as the United States Life-Saving Station that was established on Plum Island in 1895-6, though the two stations would be separately administered...
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    United States Life-Saving Service built a station on the island. The USLSS became part of the United States Coast Guard in 1915. The station was permanently...
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    well as bayberry, sweet peas, and a host of other plant life. Two large peninsular arms extend from the main body of the island, named Canapitsit (the...
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    the U.S. Life-Saving Service, the first African-American to command a life-saving station. Etheridge led the Pea Island Lifesaving Station crew of six...
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    October 2019. "Saving Africa's Rarest Species". usafricabizsummit.com. Retrieved 19 May 2024. Toorawa, S. (2007). The medieval Waqwaq islands and the Mascarenes...
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    or "Fog, Intense Dispersal Of") was a system used for dispersing fog and pea soup fog (dense smog) from an airfield so that aircraft could land safely...
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    1899 San Ciriaco hurricane (category Hurricanes in the Leeward Islands)
    of the island were devastated, with numerous homes flattened and all crops were destroyed, including coconuts, corn, grapefruit, oranges, peas, and potatoes...
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    Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) at Work: New York: Restoring the Long Island Sound While Saving Money". EPA. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved...
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  • house. After Misae and Hiroshi bring him home, Misae makes him eat the green peas. 120 "Going out for a boat ride" (Japanese: ボート遊びをするゾ) October 31, 1994 (1994-10-31)...
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  • January 15, 2018 (2018-01-15) John Lithgow, Senator Chuck Schumer The Black Eyed Peas John Lithgow discusses The Crown and his new Broadway show, Stories by Heart...
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    National Relief Fund, was launched, and soldiers raised funds by selling pea-soup door to door. Internationally, 100,000 commemorative postcards, featuring...
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