Hog Island, Virginia

Photograph collection of Annie P. Quillen

The Hog Island Life-Saving Station was commissioned in 1875. 

This photograph is of the 2nd of a total of five different stations to be erected on the island. This station responded to twenty-four major shipwrecks. The Keeper and surfmen of the Hog Island station received the Gold and Silver Life-Saving Medals for their heroic efforts at the scene of the shipwreck San Albano, in 1892.