Winslow W. Griesser

The station keepers job included recruiting and training local men capable of manning their boats, when needed.

[1] On November 21, 1900, when commanding the Buffalo life–saving station, Griesser distinguished himself by heroically swimming out to rescue a stranded mariner, in the teeth of a gale.

When his boat was damaged, when being launched, Griesser decided to swim out to the sole remaining survivor of the scow, who was clinging to an offshore pylon.

The first attempt by Griesser and one of his crewmen, to swim out to the stranded man, towing a rescue line failed, when the large waves tossed them back on shore, injuring his companion.

[5][6] The USCGC Winslow W. Griesser, commissioned on March 11, 2016, is the sixteenth cutter in the class, and fourth vessel in its cohort of six to be stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.