United States Life-Saving Service
（重定向自Life Saving Service）
![Seal of the United States Life-Saving Service](/Images/godic/202501/24/Seal_of_the_United_States_Life-Saving_Service4719.png")
![Pennant of the United States Life-Saving Service, flown at U.S. Lifesaving Service stations.](/Images/godic/202501/24/Pennant_of_the_United_States_Life-Saving_Service4719.png")
![The Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station. The Station was in use from 1832 until the 1940s. It was demolished by 1949.](/Images/godic/202501/24/Cape_Hatteras_life_saving_station4720.jpg")
![1906 postcard captioned, The start of the life-boat, Cape Cod](/Images/godic/202501/24/The_Start_of_the_life-boat_c_1900_Cape_Cod4720.jpg")
The United States Life-Saving Service was a United States government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers. It began in 1848 and ultimately merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915.