1881:	At 4am the patrolman from Station Number 34, Fourth District, New Jersey, discovered a vessel ashore on the south bar at Townsent’s Inlet, NJ about three miles south of the station and a mile offshore.  He reported at the station at once and the vessel was boarded by the life-saving crew within an hour and a half.  She proved to be the schooner Joseph F. Baker with a crew of eight persons.  After endeavoring to work the vessel off with her sails, the keeper made preparations to run an anchor and heave her off.  By this time a wrecking vessel came alongside, and her captain arranged with the master of Baker to take his vessel off.  The life-saving crew, which had meantime been joined by the keepers of Station 33 and 35, finding they could be of no further service, left the vessel, taking ashore dispatches for the captain.  A steamer towed the vessel off the bar.
1952:	Sinbad, the mascot of the cutter Campbell during World War II, passed away at his last duty station, the Barnegat Lifeboat Station, at the ripe old age of 15.  He served on board the cutter throughout the war and earned his way into Coast Guard legend with his shipboard and liberty antics.
1981:	The 14 remaining LORAN-A stations closed down at midnight, ending Loran-A coverage, which began during World War II.