“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.” - Charles Simic
This is one of two "twin" lighthouses in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It was originally built in 1828. In 1924 the Lighthouse Service ruled that all twin lights must be converted to single beacons. The lighthouse is located on private property but easily photographed from the street.
Humor for the day - A group of girlfriends is on vacation when they see a 5-story hotel... Read Full Story
RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg, and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. At the time of her launching in 1912, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, ranking it as one of the deadliest... Read Full Story
These two photos show the Longships Lighthouse - and the second was taken from helicopter (flying to the Isles of Scilly - 45 km /28 miles off Land's End ). Longships is the name given to a group of rocks situated 1.25 miles to the west of Land's End , in Penwith, Corwall, united Kingdom. Longships Lighthouse is situated at Longships and the original was built in 1795 on the highest point of the largest rock. However, this was only 40 feet above sea level, and the tower itself was only 40... Read Full Story
I have decided to take a break from cooking today. While, this is not something that I will do often, I thought that many of you would enjoy this. My best friend (who is more like a brother) works for the National Park Service and is currently stationed at Fort Sumter. Today he was able to wrangle a trip for us to the top of Sullivan's Island lighthouse (which just came under control of the park service). For those of you familiar with lighthouses, this is the ugly boxy black and white one... Read Full Story
Lighthouse structures are placed on dangerous coasts and shoals located in exposed environments. Lighthouse keepers inhabited these locations.
My great great Uncle, Captain Claude Sutton served the longest of all lighthouse keepers - 40 years on the Page Rock Lighthouse off Coke in Gloucester, Virginia. Captain Sutton liked for people to stop by the lighthouse. He told someone he had just returned from his home on Cedar Bush Creek and that his wife said to him “go down to the pig pen... Read Full Story
RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland). On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg, and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April 1912. At the time of her launching in 1912, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, ranking it as one of the deadliest... Read Full Story
New evidence has experts rethinking how the luxury passenger liner sank... By Justin Ewers For decades after the disaster, there was little doubt about what sank the Titanic. When the "unsinkable" ship, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner of its time, crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, it took more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers to the bottom. As the ship slipped into the North Atlantic, so, too, did the secret of how and why it sank. The Titanic left Queenstown... Read Full Story
Throughout history and around the world, lighthouses have been important aids to navigation. Lighthouses are built along coasts to signal passing ships of rocky shores or shallow water. The early lighthouses used wick lamps as a source of light. They used whale or fish oil for fuel. Soon, the lighthouse keepers learned that if they put reflectors behind the lamps it would be lighter. Read Full Story
Towering 100 feet above the 76 strip in Branson, the Titanic historical museum holds over 400 actual artifacts from the original titanic. The two story museum is even anchored in water to add to the ambiance. The Titanic museum consists of a 90 minute tour. At the beginning of the tour you are handed a boarding pass of an original Titanic passenger. At the end of the tour you will find out whether the passenger survived or not. Branson Vacation Packages - The Titanic Museum You encounter... Read Full Story
If Ghosts fascinate you, or you like to go on these ghost hunts around the world , this is one place you should add to your list: The Queen Mary Ship based in Long Beach, California, USA. The History: The ship did her maiden voyage on May 27th 1936 . Then it was used for a war service from March 1940 - September 1946, that carried 765,429 military personnel. She then resumed a passenger service from July 31, 1947, until a retirement on September 19, 1967. The ship was purchased by Long Beach... Read Full Story
