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Hellenic Navy lighthouse tender HS Karavogiannos, A-479. THV Galatea, a lighthouse tender operated by Trinity House. A lighthouse tender is a ship specifically designed to maintain, support, or tend to lighthouses or lightvessels, providing supplies, fuel, mail, and transportation. The work is often carried out by ships which also act as buoy ...
Light Vessel 72 (also known by its identification number LV72) was a light vessel of Trinity House, a British lighthouse authority.Constructed in Sunderland in 1903 she served as a navigational beacon in the British Isles until the Second World War.
There is a background chapter on the first recorded women lighthouse keepers, Irish nuns of the St. Anne's convent in County Cork who maintained the Youghal lighthouse during the years 1190–1542, [3] and the first American woman lighthouse keeper in 1775 at Boston Harbor when Hannah Thomas assumed her husband's lighthouse keeper duties as he ...
USLHT Arbutus was a wooden-hulled, steam-powered lighthouse tender built for the United States Lighthouse Board in 1879. She served on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in this role until 1925. During World War I, she was transferred to the United States Navy and was commissioned as USS Arbutus, but her duties largely remained those of a lighthouse ...
Trinity House, London (2007) A meeting at Trinity House c. 1808 The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, [3] also known as Trinity House (and formally as The Master, Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent), is the official authority for ...
By Erika Riggs For many years, the Poplar Point lighthouse was the beacon guiding ships in Wickford Harbor, a protected inlet in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. Built in 1831, the structure ...
A lighthouse keeper, she was the first Hispanic-American woman to command a federal shore installation. [1] Marilyn Dykman said of her "Maria Andreu's leadership and perseverance as keeper of the lighthouse inspired generations of women to shine as female employees within federal service through her beacon of light."
Stevie Nicks, rock’s ethereal songstress, is shining her light on real-world issues with her first new single in years. “The Lighthouse,” out Friday, is a rousing feminist anthem aimed at ...