Offices
- 1876, appointed keeper of 4 Massachusetts Humane Society life-boats at Stony Beach, Point Allerton, Nantasket Beach, Gun Rock Cove and a mortar station at Gun Rock Cove.
- October 22, 1889, Joshua James took the oath of office as keeper of the U.S. Life-Saving Station at Point Allerton.
At 62 Joshua passed all of the physical examinations with no difficulty and eleven years later at 73 he repeated the act. During the thirteen years he was keeper of the Point Allerton station he and his crew saved 540 lives and $1,203,435.00 worth of estimated value of ships and cargo.
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