Since Keeper Eldredge has had charge of this station he has made
twenty-six trips to disabled or wrecked vessels in the station
surf-boat. On board the vessels assisted by Keeper Eldredge and his
crew there were seventy-four persons. Of this number eight were
taken ashore in the surf-boat. Six of these comprised the crew of
the schooner _Electa Bailey_, which was a total loss, one was from a
crippled cat-boat, and the other was a sick sailor taken ashore from a
schooner. Most of the work done by the crew of the Chatham Station was
on two and three masted schooners that became stranded on the Chatham
bars.