U.S. Coast Guard Station Golden Gate is a U.S. Coast Guard station in
Sausalito,
California. It falls under Coast Guard Sector San Francisco in the U.S.C.G.'s District Eleven.
Station Golden Gate is a designated Coast Guard surf station, where surf conditions greater than occur 36 days or more per year;
as a surf station, it operates three
47-foot Motor Lifeboat
The 47-foot MLB is the standard lifeboat of the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The 47′ MLB is the successor to the 44′ MLB.
At Station Chatham where the new 47-foot boat would draw too much to get over the bar, the 42-foot Near Shore Li ...
s and two
29-foot Response Boats - Small (RB-S).
History
A life-saving station was established in
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds. It is administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development ...
on June 20, 1877, which later became the first of five life-saving stations in the Twelfth District of the
United States Life-Saving Service. The Golden Gate Park station was later supplemented by stations at
Fort Point,
Point Reyes, Point Bonita, and
Ocean Beach. When the Life-Saving Service merged with the
United States Revenue Cutter Service in 1915 to form the
United States Coast Guard, the San Francisco and Marin-area stations were gradually consolidated at Fort Point as Coast Guard Station No. 323.
In 1987, an agreement was reached to expand the scope of Station Fort Point, and its equipment and crews were relocated in 1990 to
Fort Baker as Station Golden Gate on Horseshoe Bay. It is the busiest search and rescue station on the Pacific coast, averaging over 600 cases per year, with a geographic responsibility extending along the Pacific coast from Point Reyes to
Point Ano Nuevo
Point or points may refer to:
Places
* Point, Lewis, a peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
* Point, Texas, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States
* Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
* Poin ...
, including the
Farallon Islands
The Farallon Islands, or Farallones (from the Spanish ''farallón'' meaning "pillar" or "sea cliff"), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The island ...
, and within
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the big cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.
San Francisco Bay drains water from a ...
from Bluff Point to
Pier 39.
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See also
* United States Coast Guard
*Organization of the United States Coast Guard
This article covers the organization of the United States Coast Guard.
The headquarters of the Coast Guard is located at 2703 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE in Washington, D.C. The Coast Guard relocated to the grounds of the former St. Eli ...
References
United States Coast Guard stations
Sausalito, California
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