U.S. Coast Guard Station Golden Gate is a U.S. Coast Guard station in

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on Horseshow Bay. It falls under Coast Guard Sector San Francisco in the U.S.C.G.'s District Eleven. Station Golden Gate is a designated Coast Guard surf station, where surf conditions greater than occur 36 days or more per year; as a surf station, it operates three

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s and two 29-foot Response Boats - Small (RB-S).

History

A life-saving station was established in

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on June 20, 1877, which later became the first of five life-saving stations in the Twelfth District of the

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. The Golden Gate Park station was later supplemented by stations at Fort Point,

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, Point Bonita, and Ocean Beach. When the Life-Saving Service merged with the

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in 1915 to form the

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, the San Francisco and Marin-area stations were gradually consolidated at Fort Point as Coast Guard Station No. 323. In 1987, an agreement was reached to expand the scope of Station Fort Point, and its equipment and crews were relocated in 1990 to

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as Station Golden Gate on Horseshoe Bay. It is the busiest search and rescue station on the Pacific coast, averaging over 600 cases per year, with a geographic responsibility extending along the Pacific coast from Point Reyes to Point Ano Nuevo, including the

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, and within

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from Bluff Point to

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United States Coast Guard stations Marin County, California {{USCG-stub

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