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Photograph of CG 36500
Photograph by Jerry Johnson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG-36500 is a historic, 36-foot lifeboat that is berthed at Rock Harbor in Orleans, Massachusetts. Built in 1946, it is notable for its involvement in the 1952 SS Pendleton rescue, one of the most daring such events recorded in the history of the United States Coast Guard.”

Wikipedia article Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 145 National Register listings in Barnstable County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. berthed at Rock Harbor, Orleans, 02653
  • When was it listed? 2005-05-27
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Orleans town
  • National Register reference number. 05000467 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

30 words

This property stands in Orleans Town. History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1637-1686-1890, published 1890 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Orleans Town - 30 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

79 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500 between 1993 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning11
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2018Naturalunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
28 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control1946
24 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
5 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control1520
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Controlnot named
3 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMassachusetts Bureau of Forest Fire Control1025

Every fire recorded in Barnstable County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 3,331 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 3,331 specimens collected within 10 miles of Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500 between 1819 and 1975: 1,769 Animalia, 1,177 Plantae, 188 Fungi, 75 Chromista, 68 Bacteria, 54 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. R. Alan Hodgdon Hodgdon, A. R. Hodgdon and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Laminaria caperata Bachelot de la Pylaie, 18241819Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Carya tomentosa, not of this specimenCarya tomentosa (Lam.) Nutt.1840Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Stenotomus chrysops, not of this specimenStenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766)1860William BemisCape Cod Bay, Wellfleet Harbor
A photograph of the species Carex foenea, not of this specimenCarex foenea Willd.1864W. P. AlcottWellfleet
A photograph of the species Alosa mediocris, not of this specimenAlosa mediocris (Mitchill, 1814)1871MCZ teamBrewster, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
A photograph of the species Bittiolum alternatum, not of this specimenBittiolum alternatum (Say, 1822)1872Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish CommissionCape Cod
A photograph of the species Buccinum undatum, not of this specimenBuccinum undatum Linnaeus, 17581872Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish CommissionCape Cod
Gastropoda1872Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish CommissionCape Cod
A photograph of the species Helix Linnaeus, not of this specimenHelix Linnaeus, 17581872Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish CommissionCape Cod
A photograph of the species Hydrobia minuta, not of this specimenHydrobia minuta (Totten, 1834)1872Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish CommissionCape Cod
A photograph of the species Lacuna vincta, not of this specimenLacuna vincta (Montagu, 1803)1872Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish CommissionCape Cod
A photograph of the species Littorina littorea, not of this specimenLittorina littorea (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Smith, S. I.; Harger, O., U.S. Fish CommissionCape Cod

All 3,331 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orleans, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 lightning. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009LightningOrleans1 killedA 41 year old man was out digging for quahogs (clams) on the tidal flats of Little Pleasant Bay, a quarter mile east of Sipsons Island when he was struck by lightning and killed.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindOrleans$5,000Trees and wires were downed by thunderstorm winds.
November 2005LightningOrleans$5,000no account filed
November 2005LightningOrleans$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Orleans$3,000Amateur radio operators reported trees down on Route 28 Southbound. Wires were down on Main Street. A tree was down on wires on Blue Heron Way. A large tree was down on Quanset Road. Wires were down on Karen Lane.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOrleans$1,000At 9:09 AM EST, thunderstorm winds toppled a tree on O'Connor Road in Orleans, near the Transfer Station.
April 2008HailOrleans-Penny sized hail fell near Rock Harbor.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindOrleans-Large tree limbs down.
July 2007HailOrleans-Penny size hail.
July 2007HailOrleans-Penny size hail.
May 1994HailOrleans-Dime-size hail was reported.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOrleans-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindOrleans-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnstable County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

From the nomination file

5,446 words on record

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) XA Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. _ B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. XC Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. -D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) Property is: _A owned by religious institution or used for religious purposes. _B removed from its original location. _C a birthplace or grave. _ D a cemetery. _E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. _ F a commemorative property. -G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.

Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) _Barnstable County, MA County and State Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) Architecture Engineering Maritime History Iransportation Period of Significance 1946-1955 Significant Dates 1946, 1952 Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) Cultural Affiliation Architect/Builder Curtis Bay Maryland Coast Guard Yard 2.

The whole case file for this property - 5,446 words, 34 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 05000467, 34 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
French Cable Station1.4 miles1972
Collins Cottages Historic District1.4 miles1999
Universalist Society Meetinghouse2.0 miles1999
Cove Burying Ground2.1 miles1999
Bridge Road Cemetery2.3 miles1999
Penniman, Edward, House and Barn2.6 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000467 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barnstable CountyAll 145 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.