The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station opened in 1874. The original building served the men working at the station until a new one was built in 1911. The present complex of buildings at the Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station Historic Site in Rodanthe, NC are listed on the State Register of Historic Places and probably represents the most complete Life Saving Service historic site in the United States. The station was one of 26 on the North Carolina coast that stretched from Deal’s Island next to the Virginia border to Bogue Inlet in the south. The station gained international fame in 1918 when its crew rescued 42 men from the burning English tanker Mirlo after it was torpedoed by a German submarine. View is from the ocean side.
The old comlplex of buildings
The newer building went into service in 1911.
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