Sabine Pass

[2][3] In May 1898, the 55th United States Congress authorized the establishment of two seacoast defense forts at Sabine Pass relative to the Texas Gulf Coast.

[5] In 1941, the United States authorized a coastal artillery emplacement and Harbor Entrance Control Post at the Sabine Pass natural waterway inlet as a response to Battle of the Atlantic better known as Operation Drumbeat orchestrated by Nazi Germany.

The coastal defence and fortification incorporated an artillery battery command post complementary as a Coast Guard lifeboat station initially chartered in 1870s as the United States Life-Saving Service.

[7] The Sabine Pass coastal defense installation was deemed military surplus as the United States Department of War operations tapered by 1945.

[9][needs context] Hurricane Rita made landfall on September 24, 2005, and on September 12–13, 2008, Hurricane Ike struck Sabine Pass and Galveston,[10] generating the highest surge[11] of 22 feet (6.7 meters) which is, according to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88),[12] the highest ever recorded at Sabine Pass.