Lyle Gun (line-throwing cannon)  Japanese Attacks on Curry County - World War II "Coastie" Bedroom The Navy Years (1941-1945)

The Man Who Built the Station  The Dog Tag Maker Shipwrecks and Rescues The "Jerry" Cans

Boats of the U.S. Coast Guard Signaling Systems (Semaphore Flags and Flares) Port Orford - The Early Years Officer in Charge Office

A U.S. Coast Guard ensign from the Lifeboat Station

In 1799, Congress authorized cutters and boats to be "distinguished from other vessels by an ensign and pennant."  In August of that year, Treasury Secretary Wolcott prescribed that the "ensign and pennant’’ should consist of "sixteen perpendicular stripes, alternate red and white, the union of the ensign to be the arms of the United States in dark blue on a white field."  There were sixteen states in the Union at that time.

"Shipwrecks and Rescues"

Life rings from SS Cottoneva and SS Willapa, whose crews were rescued by Port Orford Lifeboat Station crews, with a Lyle gun and a salvaged piece of the wrecked Willapa