• We’re Only Here for the Beer By Pat Glesner - The days of care-free living at LORAN station Hokkaido were about to come to an end.

• The Demise Of Scotch Cap Light Station By Dennis Dowling - It happened in 1946, Scotch Cap Light Station and Her Crew Were Lost in a Tsunami.

• 1/13/05 - Horrors Of A Winter Gale At Boon Island Light By George S. Wasson - Written in the language of the day the story projects the harshness of life on this desolate rock.

• Whitewash Or Another Lightkeeper’s Lament Poem By Harry A. Gray, November 24, 1935. By  Jeremy D'Entremont  Reposted By Permission of Mr. D'Entremont.  This article appeared in the December 2004 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. All contents copyright © 1995 - 2005 by Lighthouse Digest®, Inc. 

• An Act Of Congress By  Seamond Ponsart Roberts - Coast Guard recruiting goes awry.

• Santa And The Elf - By Seamond Ponsart Roberts ©2003 - Seamond Ponsart Parker - Available in secured Adobe PDF format only.

• The Little Red Lightship that brought a Big Aircraft Carrier to a Stop By James F. (Jay) McCarthy - A short Story

• Lightship Down by Tom Dunlop - ©Copyright 2003 - Martha's Vineyard Magazine - Reprinted By Permission - Harold Flagg tells his story.

• Living at a Lighthouse By Helen Carlson - Copyright © 1995 - 2003 by Lighthouse Digest®, Inc. A girl grows up on some Lake Michigan Lighthouses,

• Boon Island Declares Independence©2003 Lighthouse Digest (LINK) - Tim Harrison declares himself Regent Lord Master of the Republic of Boon Island and offers many high positions to one and all from this most corrupt nation. Every office is for sale. 

• My Life On Boon Island ©2003 - The Lighthouse Digest - By Miriam (Dolby) Hammel - Hardly the good life for a young wife who learned to scrub clothes on a washboard, use an outhouse, and hope the place wouldn't wash away in a storm. - Reposted by permission of The Lighthouse Digest.

• Coast Guard Days at Portsmouth Harbor©2003 By Jeremy D'Entremont - Reposted by permission of the author and The Lighthouse Digest.

• Old Jack the Lighthouse Mule - A Story for Kids of All Ages ©By Elinor DeWire Many dray animals came and went in the old U.S. Lighthouse Service. This is the story of a mule named "Jack" who lived his working years on South East Farallon Island.

• Memories Of Little River Light Station © By David P. Bartholomay - Life on this island was rarely boring or without its humorous moments.

• No, No, Not Me - The Red Cutter  By Jim Gill - A set of orders to a “Red One” could inspire a number of clever countermeasures.

  On Station-The Red Target By Jim Gill - A reflection

  The First Cruise of Lightship 196© By C. William Bailey - Ferrying a brand new lightship from Bay City, Michigan to Boston. A tale to make an old RM cringe.

• The Demise Of Buffalo Lightship No. 82 - Link to Buffalo Light, Guardian of the Harbor -  © Aaron T. Heverin & Michael N. Vogel. No part may be copied without permission.

• Crewmen of LV 116 (Chesapeake Lightship) Oral Histories - Link to Coast Guard Historians web page. Life on a Lightship transcribed from oral tapes by Seamond Ponsart Roberts.

• Rescued By a Buoy© by Elinor DeWire - Reprinted from Mariners Weather Log, Fall 1995. - Reprinted herein by permission of the author - Ms. DeWire is a prolific author who has kindly granted JACK'S JOINT access to her lighthouse story collection. Visit her at Sentinel Publications, her website. 

• The Pilots Psalm (The Lighthouse Keepers Prayer) By Captain J.H. Roberts (1874) Submitted by Doug Bingham

• Christmas Memories - A Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter - 1940-1957 By Seamond Ponsart Roberts - Originally Posted on the Flying Santa Website - Reposted by permission of the author - Looking backward to how the Flying Santa, Edward Rowe Snow affected the life of a little girl growing up on a lighthouse.

• Lighthouse Letters - Compiled by Seamond Ponsart Roberts - Excerpts of letters and articles published in the now defunct "Maine Fisherman." These cover a two to three year span beginning in 1954, near the end of the era of Congressionally appointed Lighthouse Keepers. This is a very large file and takes a few minutes to load.

• A Lightship Sailor Is Surprised - By Donald H. Ward - Funny things happened during WWII as this ex-Coastie relates.

• The Warship Swiftsure by Jim Gill - [1,457 words] 

• Keeper John Arndt Anderson, USLSS 1870-1926© By Alan Nelson Originally posted on the Internet on Bill Well’s site – Republished by permission of the author. This is the Biography of a Norseman turned United States ‘Surfman in the days when Great Lakes members of the service were laid off during the winter and earned $40,00 per month during the season……

• Avery Point Light Latecomer But It Deserves Preservation© By Carol W. Kimball - Published on 9/21/2000 -- The New London Day

• The Ultimate Price by Wayne Arnold - The story of SN Robert Gullickson, the only man ever lost during the lifetime of the Huron Lightship.

• Lightship Heaven By Seamond -- A lightship man has died. I was thinking about a man who has put all his life and soul into these little boats - what it would be like in his heaven?  

• Quick Thinking On Miah Maull By Dave Moyer – [1624 words] --“here I was…wearing my new First Class Quartermaster stripes bouncing along on a forty-four footer approaching my new station, Miah Maull Shoal Lighthouse…….”

• Where Is The Outrage? By Doug Bingham – [539 words] - An Opinion and an Appeal – Save the Nantucket Lightship. Posted 2/14/00

• Link To Save Nantucket Site

• Tale Of Two Ladies by Jack Eckert - Two ladies honored at two separate solemn events were brought forward from the obscurity of history………… 

• Collision Course - Submitted by John Ingram

• It's Brasswork by Fred Morong - [522 words] - This poem stresses the bane of the light keepers life. Updated 3/17/00 with a postscript by Seamond Ponsart Roberts.

• Lighthouse Keepers - An Old Saw - [177 words]

• Lightships - A foghorn sounds from the past.

• Milwaukee Breakwater Light Station - Circa 1956

• Pilot Island - Circa 1955 - Recently updated

• Stay Inboard of the Bight by John Russell - [552 words] - Safety First on this Lighthouse Tender of yore.

• The Death And Virtual Resurrection Of The Vineyard Lightship By Seamond (Ponsart) Roberts [475 words] – An eye witness account of yesterday and today. 

• The Lighthouse Keeper of Tokarvsky Cape

• The Lightship - by Guy G. Robbins - A tribute in verse to the Vineyard Lightship which went down with all hands during a hurricane.

• The Little Red Ship by Jim Gill - Life on a Lightship.

• The West Chop Wild Goose Chase by Seamond (Ponsart) Roberts

• Women in the Coast Guard by Elizabeth A. Neely -[1745 words] – A thumbnail history.

• The Victory Lighthouse of Trieste

• Lighthouse Digest - The current magazine plus their archives

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