Rockaway LSS

Location:	On Rockaway Beach, 2 3/4 miles east from west end of Rockaway Point and 6 7/8 miles esast northeast of Romer Shoal Light; 40-35' 30"N x 37-47' 30"W in 1915
Date of Conveyence	1910
Station Built:	1872
Fate:	Turned over to the GSA in 1960 (?)
Station Type:

William H. Reinhart was appointed keeper on 29 JAN 1878 and left in 1915. Reinheart was transferred on 23 OCT 1896 to the Rocky Point Station and was transferred back to Rockaway Station on 10 MAR 1897.

Authorized by the establishing act of 14 DEC 1854, a boathouse was built on Barron Island and designated as Barron Island and designated as Barron Island No. 10. This boathouse was removed from Barren Island 14 DEC 1864. Then in 1872 a station was built on this site and a keeper appointed 12 DEC 1872. In 1910 a plot was released to the Neponsit Realty Company of New York for a plot about one mile to the westward of the station as located at that time. The conveyance was rendered 10 AUG 1910. The original station was designated No. 10 Barren Island then changed to No. 3 Carnarsie, then later to Rockaway Beach No. 30, then 32, then 33, then 36 until 12 APR 1883 it was changed to Rockaway Point.

Rockaway (#91) Rockaway station is believed to have been built "near the village of Rockaway" in 1854, although a keeper, John Abrams, is identified in the year 1853. It is not known when he left. Nor is it known when the next identified keeper, Calvin H. Mott, who was appointed in 1856, left. Daniel Mott was appointed at the age of 56, with experience as a wrecker and surfman, on July 2, 1869, and left some time in 1877. In 1882, the station is referred to as Rockaway Beach; the name is shortened to Rockaway effective June 1, 1883. The next keeper was William H. Reinhart, who was appointed on January 29, 1878, was reassigned to Rocky Point station on October 23, 1896, and reassigned back to Rockaway on March 10, 1897; he retired on March 25, 1915, having accumulated 64 years in age and more than thirty years in service. Ira Hicks appears on the roles as acting keeper, but was never confirmed. Next came Joseph D. Meade, who was appointed February 25, 1917, and was reassigned to the Oak Island station November 28, 1923.

Until 1882, the station is called Rockaway Beach; this was shortened to Rockaway in 1883. The station was extensively repaired and improved in 1888. A contract was let in 1912 to "replace structures no longer suited to the needs of the service." In 1916, the building was removed to a new site." The station is listed as "discontinued as an active unit" in 1922 and carried as such until 1934, when it disappeared from the records. From this point forward, the Rockaway Point station was referred to as Rockaway. In 1942 the station was relocated from the ocean side of the Rockaway area to the projected inlet side, at the foot of Marine Parkway Bridge, about a mile away from the original site. Rockaway is one of the largest and busiest units of its type in the former Third Coast Guard District.

On 12 November 1978 a midnight raid on a fishing trailer moored at the Yancaribe Marina in Rockaway netted the biggest drug haul in Long Island history. Coast Guard, other Federal officials and local police seized the 65-foot Terry’s Dream along with four large trucks and two vans in the 12 November haul. Over 29 tons of Columbian marijuana were seized in the raid.