Pea Island Life-Saving Station

Keeper Richard Etheridge (on left) and the Pea Island Life-Saving crew in front of their station, circa 1896
Emblem of the U.S. Life-Saving Service

Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was the first life-saving station in the country to have an all-black crew, and it was the first in the nation to have a black man, Richard Etheridge, as commanding officer.[1] On August 3, 2012, the second of the Coast Guard's 154-foot Sentinel-Class Cutters, USCGC Richard Etheridge (WPC-1102), was commissioned in his honor.

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