Show CALLS FOR MIEN MEN OF HEROIC MOLI MOLD lightship service no place for craven despite the antiquity of the lightship service few inhabitants of the united states are aware of the value and danger of the performed perform eeL by its personnel only the occa hurricane sweeping freakish ly ay in from the sea Is sufficient to bring brin it momentarily into the public eye george 11 II Enger engeman rinn writes in the lie baltimore sun following in the wake of a recent storm of this tape have come ninny many tales of 0 the havoc it wrought and the bravery it revealed among these must be recorded the feat of the crew 0 f the diamond shoals lights lightship bip standing watch off cape hatteras probably the most exposed post on the atlantic coast they had tile the unusual experience of oc being blown ship heavy anchor awl and all on the dreaded shoals as i the first phase of the hurricane exhausted itself then came a lull and they made their way to safety before the second and more destree tive period set in at such times of stress arrive the crucial moments in every lightship mans career other water borne vessels heeding the ancient warnings in s scurry for the nearest harbor ships hips many times the lightships size change courses hurriedly when warned of the hurricanes imminent arrival and steam hundreds of expensive miles out of their courses course to a vold avoid the fury of the wind but to lightships no such ways of safety are open it Is their duty to warn shipping away from the dan dangerous gerou stretches of the coast line As the storm increases the danger which these rocks and shoals represent set it becomes increasingly greater it Is at the height of the storm that the lightships warning Is needed most so it must stand by in the fury of the gale doggedly hanging on to its mooring anchored on the brink of disaster in from the sea sweeps the storm and the aig lightship seln swings s desperately to it astern toward vars the land lam perhaps only a few hundred yards away the great mountains of waves suddenly are broken up into white and violet loam foam the work of the ever present shoat shoal over ivsich the lightship stands watch many a lightship with its crew bag ha been lost on the rocks it has been assigned to guard |