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From the August 7, 2014 Washington Island Observer, Written by Janet Berggren The U.S. Coast Guard moved its station from Plum Island to Washington Island in 1991, but the name Coast Guard Station Plum Island became history in 1993, when the new station at Detroit Harbor was named Coast Guard Station Washington Island. Twenty years ago, in June 1994, Washington Island's Jackson Harbor Maritime Museum hosted a two-day reunion party for all former Plum Island Coast Guard person

Thanks to a gift from Nancy Burgess, and her dad, Robert Hoth, we now have a 1950 ‘United States Coast Guard Radiobeacon System Great Lakes’ map to add to our collections. The Plum Island Station was one of the synchronized distance-finding commercial radio communications stations (Class C, 20-mile range) that served the bulk-carriers (iron ore, coal, petroleum, cement and limestone) boats and freighters on the Great Lakes. It was established May 3, 1940 and discontinued in

Mary Beth Volmer - President of Friends of Plum & Pilot Islands 40300 tied up at Plum Island I received a call from the current owner of...

Captain Jim Robinson aboard FOPPI's boat The Shoreline . Jim owned the boat for many years before selling it to FOPPI in 2022. FOPPI was...