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- Coast Guard Cutter TACKLE – Keeping with Tradition at Shag Rock
A short distance northwest of Maine’s Owls Head Lighthouse stands a unique, pyramidal-shaped structure situated on a cluster of rocks.
Just what this 57-foot structure is and why it stands silent sentinel in such a place is often a mystery to both Maine residents and visitors alike.
To the mariner, however, there is no mystery. The wooden pyramidal icon, known as Shag Rock Daybeacon 9, is an important navigational aid and serves as a warning to nearby boats of the hazards that exist in and around this half-tide ledge.
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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...
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.
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Delaware Lights:
A History of Lighthouse
in the First State
Published by The History Press.
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