Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum

Cape Henlopen, Delaware

The Cape Henlopen Life-Saving Station as it appeared in 1890.

by Photograph collection of Billy Burton Cropper.

This station was commissioned in 1876.
It was the first station to be built on the Delaware coast.
This station responded to twenty-eight major shipwrecks.
In the photograph the surfmen are practicing the breeches buoy drill.