Caffey's Inlet L.S.S. Traditional Cache
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Located at a restored Life Saving Station. Small container with log book and pencil. Lots of nearby parking just a few feet from the cache.
In 1871 the U.S. Life-Saving Service was established. Seven U.S. lifesaving stations were built on the Outer Banks in 1874 in an attempt to help save sailors' lives, if not salvage some of the ships. The stations were operated mostly by native Outer Bankers. Good swimmers and sea captains who knew the wild waters, these men risked their lives (and many perished) trying to pull others from the ocean. Stations were built of wood and designed to afford comfortable quarters for the surfmen and convenient rooms for the apparatus.The design of the building is called timber frame. This design was developed in the Northeast and found able to stand the worst of weather conditions. The frames were made in a mill in New Bern, NC.On the first floor there was a boat room and a "day room", which was the kitchen, dining room, and recreation room all-in-one; on the second floor were found the keeper's office, keeper's quarters, and the sleeping quarters for the crew and shipwreck survivors. An open platform lookout tower for the day-watch was placed upon the roof, and there was a flagstaff for signaling. A drill pole was erected for the purpose of practicing rescue techniques with the beach-apparatus. The station’s equipment was usually comprised of two boats with outfits, a life-car, two sets of breeches-buoys, a mortar and cart, cork life jackets, heaving-sticks, Coston signal flares, rockets, signal flags, barometer, thermometer, and necessary furniture. Surfmen at Outer Banks lifesaving stations saved thousands of lives during hurricanes and hellacious northeast blows. In 1915 the Lifesaving Service became part of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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