US Coast Guard Station Golden Gate

 military, United States Coast Guard

In 1914 the Life Saving Service merged with the Revenue-Cutter Service and the new organization became the United States Coast Guard, resulting in the renaming of the station at the Presidio as Fort Point Coast Guard Station No. 323. With the introduction of the motor lifeboat and the gradual phasing out of oar-powered lifeboats, the stations at Golden Gate Park, Point Bonita, and Ocean Beach were closed and consolidated into Station Fort Point, leaving it the only operating facility in the Bay Area.

For almost one hundred years Station 323 protected those who traveled on the seas; rescuing them from danger, and protecting the port from crime and attack. A need for expansion brought the U.S. Army, National Park Service, and U.S. Coast Guard to negotiations in June 1987 and a decision was reached to move the station to East Fort Baker in Marin County. In 1990 Station Fort Point was decomissioned and its lifeboats and crew moved across the Bay to a new location at Fort Baker in the Marin Headlands.

Station Golden Gate is one of the Coast Guard's nineteen designated surf stations and the busiest search and rescue station on the West Coast, averaging over 600 search & rescue cases and more than 300 law enforcement boardings each fiscal year. The station is one of several Bay Area units responsible for offshore or open ocean response, with an area of responsibility covering fifty nautical miles offshore from Point Reyes to Point Ano Nuevo, including the Farallon Islands and within San Francisco Bay from Bluff Point in Marin County to Pier 39 on the San Francisco waterfront.

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For marine emergencies call (415) 331-8247 or 9-1-1.