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New England Lighthouses: Maine To Long Island Sound
Paperback
Series: Lighthouse
ISBN13: 9780762730414
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: Aug 1 2005
Pages: 112
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.33 Width: 8.48 Depth: 11.10
Language: English
>In the winter of 1850, the keeper of Maine's Owl's Head Light rescued and revived a couple who had been frozen under a blanket of ice aboard a shipwrecked schooner.
>During the Hurricane of 1938, the keeper of the Marblehead Light in Massachusetts kept the lamp burning by running cables from his car battery to the tower.
>In February 1918 keeper Charles Jennings of the Boston Light pushed his dory over ice and through freezing surf to pluck 24 half-frozen crewmen from the Navy ship Alacrity.
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