Based on the Coast Guard Historian’s timeline, https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
With inspiration from Mike Kelso

March 5

1881  The crew of Life-Saving Station No. 10, Ninth District (Louisville), won acclaim with a dangerous rescue at the wreck of James D. Parker, a well-known river boat lost in the Indiana chute of the Ohio Falls.  She was a stern-wheel steamer of over 500 tons owned by the Cincinnati and Memphis Packet Company and bound from Cincinnati to Memphis.  Her crew numbered 50, including the captain, and she had 55 passengers on board, a number of whom were women and children.

From 1881 to 1972 “… the Louisville Lifeboat Station was in operation at Louisville, Kentucky.  The station was located just above the falls of the Ohio River and was authorized by an act of Congress on 2 March 1881.  It was the only permanently located floating lifeboat station in the world.

“During the floods of 1883-1884, the surfmen of the station ‘rescued and took to places of safety over 800 imperiled persons, men, women and children–among them many sick and infirm–and supplied food and other necessities to more than 10,000.’ [USLSS Annual Report, 1883]. “