Equipment
The station's first boathouse held two surfboats, where most other station's boathouse held just a single boat. The boats were mounted on a wagon, which its crew would pull to the best place to launch. Wagons were pushed into the surf for launching. In the 1930s the base was the home of the Coast Guard's first USCGC ''Triumph'', a motor lifeboat. This wooden-hulled vessel, and a single sister ship, were bigger than all other motor lifeboats.Operational history
On January 7, 1913, the USLS ''Dreadnaught'', under the command of Stationkeeper, Oscar S. Wicklund, and the USLS ''Tenacious'', braved breakers to cross the Columbia Bar to try to rescue survivors from the tanker ''Rosecrans''. The rescued just two survivors, out of a crew of 36. The sea was so heavy both lifeboats capsized, and their waterlogged engines were rendered inoperable, forcing the crew to fall back on oars. Wicklund and Alfred Rimer, the ''Tenacious''s skipper, opted to row to the Columbia River Lightship. Their crew and survivors took refuge there, where the lifeboats were later swept away.Retirement
The Coast Guard closed the base, and transferred it to a local community college, in the 1960s. It was subsequently transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has employed it as a fishery research centre. Its location at the mouth of the largest river on the US West Coast makes it an ideal site for fishery research.References
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