Show CALLS FOR MEN OF HEROIC MOLD lightship service no place for craven despite the antiquity of the light sr arvice vice few inhabitants of tha states are aware ot of the value and danger ot of the work performed by its ita personnel onnel only the occa sweeping freakish ly ay in from the sea la Is to I 1 ring it into the nubile eye george it 11 engeman Enge iuan writes in the baltimore sun I 1 lol loping Ing in the wake of a recent storm of this ape have 4 ome man many tales of the havoc linvol it wrought and ohp th bravery it revealed among these must be recorded the feat of the ali crew of the tha diamond shoals lightship standing ng watch 01 cape probably the mist ex nosed post on tile the atlantic coast ahey had the unusual experience of being blown ship heavy anchor and rill nil on the dreaded shoals as aa the first phase of the hurricane exhausted itself alien came a lull and they made their way to safety before tho the second mond and more de destructive struL tive period set in at such dinies of stress arrive the crucial nio moments ments in every lightship niana career other vi vater ater borne vessels heeding the warnings slurry scurry for the nearest harbor ships many times the lightships size change courses hurriedly when warned of the huril canes imminent urical and hundreds of ex miles in lies out of their courses to ald tile the fury of the wind but to no such BUCU ways of safety are open it la Is their duty to narn barn si lipping aitay from the dangerous of the coast line As tile storm In crettes es the danger illch these rocks and shot sheils Is depre ont lilt increasingly greater it is 1 nt tile height of the storm that the lightship s earning la Is needed most so 0 o it stand by in the rury fury of the gale doggedly hanging on to its wo mooring oring anchored on the hi ink of disaster in from the sea sleeps tile the storm and tile the lightship desperately to it astern to ward tile land perhaps only a few hunched hundich ct yards away aay the great moun talus of waves suddenly are broken up tip into white and violet foam the he work mork of the hie ever Lver present shoal oser which tile the lightship stands watch many a lightship with its crew ha has s been lost on the rocks it has been assigned to guard |