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Little River Light Station, Cutler, Maine

On the Doorstep of Safe Refuge and Still Wrecked at Little River Light

By: Bob Trapani, Jr., ALF Executive Director Published: October 17, 2018

When storm winds blew and the seas grew large during the age of sail, schooners and fishing boats would often run for the nearest harbor of refuge to ride out […]

Filed Under: Lighthouse History, Little River Lighthouse Tagged With: augusta e herrick, cross island, cutler, harbor, keeper, lifesaving station, lighthouse, little river, lucius davis, maine, schooner, shipwreck, united states lifesaving service

A False Beacon at Race Point Light

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: March 9, 2018

Newspaper Articles from the Past… Throughout the history of lighthouses, there are those occasions when mariners mistook a guiding light for another in the vicinity – a mistake that almost […]

Filed Under: Lighthouse History, Race Point Lighthouse Tagged With: 1845, cape cod, captain ames, light, lighthouse, mistaken light, race point, saluda, shipwreck, station

Boon Island Lighthouse

Boon Island Day to Highlight the Lighthouse and Wreck of the Nottingham Galley

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: January 18, 2011

The public is invited to a special “Boon Island Day” event at Old York’s Visitor Center at the Remick Barn, 3 Lindsay Road, in York, Maine, this coming Sunday, January […]

Filed Under: Boon Island Lighthouse Tagged With: bob trapani jr, boon island, jeremy dentremont, lighthouse, nottingham galley, shipwreck, stephen erickson, warren riess, william o thomson

Wreck of the Nottingham Galley

Program to Explore the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley and Boon Island Lighthouse

By: American Lighthouse Foundation Published: November 27, 2010

On Saturday, December 11, 2010, at 1:00 p.m., there will be a special event at Sohier Park in York, Maine. It’s not a Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses event, but […]

Filed Under: Boon Island Lighthouse Tagged With: boon island, lighthouse, maine, nottingham galley, shipwreck

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