All posts tagged "lighthouse"
-
27.4K18MaineU-Boat Attacks Of World War II: 6 Months of Secret Terror in the Atlantic
On Jan. 13, 1942, German U-boat attacks officially started against merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. From then until...
-
3.4K3MassachusettsBoston Light, The Cursed Lighthouse of Boston Harbor
The first Boston Light stood as a beacon in Boston Harbor for 60 years until the British blew it up in 1776....
-
12.3K31Rhode IslandThe Great 1938 Hurricane, A Once-In-A-Lifetime Storm
The Great 1938 Hurricane took almost everyone by surprise. Sept. 21, 1938, was supposed to be a breezy fall day in New...
-
9.5K11MaineAbbie Burgess, Teenaged Heroine of Matinicus Rock Light
Abbie Burgess, at just 16, kept the light burning in Matinicus Rock Lighthouse for 21 days in 1856 during a violent storm....
-
5.1K5MassachusettsMinots Ledge Light: The Most Dangerous and Romantic Lighthouse in America
Minots Ledge Light, the most romantic lighthouse in America, is also the site of the most tragic event in the history of...
-
4.3K12MaineThe Flying Santa of Coastal New England
The New England Flying Santa tradition was born in the teeth of a fierce winter storm when lighthouse beacons along Penobscot Bay...
-
19.9K13MaineThe Greatest Submarine Rescue Ever: Saving the Squalus
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...