| Show KEEPING THE SEA LIGHTS BURNING lighthouses no matter where they are located m must be tended regularly and kept shipshape ship sh lp shape the united states federal lighthouse tender acacia has recently salted sailed from san ban juan porto rico on a voyage to some of the most inaccessible lighthouses in the world A number or of theta them aro are on oil islands ds inhabited anit abated almost entirely by birds which are rarely disturbed d 1 s by man except when the tender makes its semiannual semi seral annual visit navassa island thirty miles ott oft the coast of haiti will be tile the first place visited here a sheer cliff must be ascended by means of a ladder made of discarded mooring chains it storms have washed away the ladder lad der placed there on the previous visit some onto member of the crew cre w will have to scale tile the cliff and anchor a new ladder the acacia wair then stearn steam north to t uan tall a W 0 bay a on 0 n the th 0 cuban coast bere ra ten lights must be baled the carridean Carrl Carri bean sea lights are on tiny islands so thickly covered wIth sea birds that the crew often has to shove its way through an almost solid mass of nesting bards in order to reach the lights after the lenderd has made its round of all the lighthouses in this area it proceeds to the panama danal canal and goos goes into dry dock at colon on the way back to san juan the ship passes all th the 0 places just serviced so that the crew can make certain that the lights are still functioning properly |
