He has been called "overly critical" and "jealous of his uncle", even "liar". I speak of Issiah William Penn Lewis whose report on America's Lighthouse Service presented to U.S. Congress on February 24, 1843, was to rock the nation with a major scandal.
In Ireland there is a small number of I unusual structures quite unlike lighthouses elsewhere. They consist of a stone-vaulted keeper's cottage containing some stairs leading up to a small platofrm on the roof on which was displayed an open fire; this could be of coal, wood or at times turf or peat. In most cases they stand on high headlands, but one example at low elevation was provided with a tower.
The approaches to the Bristol Channel along the northern coast of Cornwall and Devon offer very little shelter for the seafarer during severe weather conditions. Lundy, however, situated at the mouth of the Channel central to the busy sea lanes, is one exception and has provided an important refuge on the leeward side of the island throughout the historic period. Before the aids to navigation of the lighthouses were built, the island must also have proved hostile to the mariner, especially during hours of darkness and poor visibility.
Isle of Shoals is a cluster of eight islets anchored six miles off the east coast straddling the New Hampshire-Maine border. Five of them: Duck, Appledore, Malaga, Haley's (originally called Smuttynose) and Cedar, belong to Maine. The rest: Star, White, and Londoner, belong to New Hampshire. Appledore (once called Hog Island) is by far the largest and White is the only one of the cluster with a lighthouse. Over the years it has been called the Isle of Shoals Lighthouse as well as the White Island Lighthouse.
Ingeborg Myhre Larsdatter met Arthur Jensen in early 1908, and they married that October in Oyster Bay, Long Island. She was 24, he was 32. They moved into Cold Spring Harbor Light Station and began their 37-year career together in the U.S. Lighthouse Service.
Sunday, Dec. 30,1934, La Center, Wash. The depression is in full U swing. An 18-year-old man, working for a local restaurant, trudges into the snow to Cut logs under the boss's orders. After two days of monotonous cutting, the young and adventurous John H. Wager decided it was time for something new. Alaska seemed like something new.
Professor Joseph Henry was involved with the Light-House Board from its inception in 1852 and was an integral part of infusing science into the American lighthouse service. He was one of our country's first practicing enthusiasts for original and applied research. At the request of President Millard Fillmore, Henry Joined the Light-House Board. But, one must ask, why would a learned man like Joseph Henry, known as the "Great Old Man of Washington," serve as a volunteer for the Light-House Board?
Sea captains paid special attention to Jupiter because it juts out further into the sea than any place on Florida’s east coast. Dangerous reefs abound offshore, which meant that ships sailing south between the Gulf Stream and the shoreline had less room to maneuver. An angry storm or a locked-up propeller could drive a ship helplessly into the jaws of a reef, and it happened with amazing regularity.
Transcript of a talk given by Edward Aubry Brooks to a First Baptist Church men's class about 1940, in the Everett, Washington area, about his life work, almost 40 years, as a Lighthouse Keeper. First stationed at Cape Meares Lighthouse, Oregon; then transferred to Turn Point Lighthouse, then to Point-No-Point Light Station and then to New Dungeness Lighthoues. He spent his last 12 years at Mukilteo Light Station before retiring.
Ken Black likes to say, "There are believers and nonbelievers." By 'believer' Ken is talking about those among us who have a love of lighthouses, light ships, aids to navigation artifacts and the associated lore. Believers are people who believe that those elements of our maritime heritage are worth saving for future generations to know and enjoy. Nonbelievers are, well, let's just say, lacking vision.