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• Vega VRB-25 – Last of the Lighthouse Rotating Beacons as We Know Them
  
  

  When scientific technology and the necessity for economic savings are melded, the results are often fascinatingly ingenious.

  Invariably though, one aspect that is lost in such advancing change is the element of nostalgia, which is ushered out of relevance in favor of technology’s irresistible lure and promise of a more efficient tomorrow.

  This scenario is akin to America’s lighthouse optics, where over the last fifteen years, the innovative Vega VRB-25 rotating beacon has supplanted the historic Fresnel lens, as well as other more contemporary beacons such as the DCB-36 and FA-251, inside the lanterns of many of our nation’s active lighthouses where a rotating optic is required. Read More...

• Coast Guard Cutter TACKLE Smashes Ice on Maine’s Penobscot River
  
  

  Winter 2008-09 came in like a roaring lion along the coast of Maine, with a powerful snowstorm blanketing the region on December 21st; followed by a blast of arctic air on January 1st, which was armed with icy wind chills in the minus teens that caused people to ‘run for warm cover’ on New Year’s Day 2009.

  While the snow itself has since come and gone to various extents, the gripping effect of winter’s handiwork has remained firmly entrenched. For places like Maine’s Penobscot River it has transformed the mighty river’s surface water into a frozen state from Bald Hill Cove above Winterport to the head of navigation in Bangor at the Interstate 395 Bridge.
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Whether you enjoy the history of America’s lighthouse and lifesaving services or seek to learn more about preservation efforts designed to save our nation’s historic light and lifesaving stations for future generations, you are sure to find something of interest at Storm Heroes.

Latest Release!

Delaware Lights:
A History of Lighthouse
in the First State

Published by The History Press.

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