Station Montauk was officially opened on October 1, 1955 and has remained an active Search and Rescue and Law Enforcement unit.

Instead of building a new structure, the station at Napeague was closed and moved by barge to Lake Montauk, an operation that took six months.

[1][2][3] Unfortunately, the Star Island facility had not yet been built when one of the worst boating tragedies in recent local history struck the Montauk area.

The entire island was evacuated when Suffolk County Police bomb squad and United States Navy Demolitions experts from New Jersey defused this hot potato.

In October 1978, Montauk’s Cutter Point Wells made a large drug bust when she seized seven tons of marijuana aboard the 70-foot (21 m) sailing vessel Scott Bader off Gardiners Island.