Life-Saving Station #10 was first installed at Louisville in November, 1881, to rescue boats and people who ran into river trouble because of the Falls of the Ohio, the most hazardous obstruction on the Ohio River. Constructed with a wooden hull, it was replaced with a second station in 1902. Again with a wooden hull, it was replaced by a third station in 1929 – this time with a steel hull, a fairly new technology at the time. Life-Saving Station #10 (also named the Mayor Andrew Broaddus) serves today as the wharfboat and ticket office for the Belle of Louisville and is a National Historic Landmark.
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