Coast Guard Vessel’s Engineer
WILLIAM B. MIDGETT
A Coast Guard well-known thru-out the district is William B. Midgett, engineer of Coast Guard Supply Boat No. 1949 now stationed at this city. Mr. Midgett has been in the service 26 years, and loving his work, feels as able as ever to carry it on. His hobby is gas engineering, and in 1897, he ran the first gas engine that ever went to Dare County, the land of fish., Once he found an engine that had washed ashore on the beach, and rigged it up to saw wood for the station, much to the delight of his fellow coast-guards. He has seen a lot of changes in the Coast Guard in 26 years. When he went in as seventh man, he could only serve six months during a year. Photo by Zoeller.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, June 22, 1923
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