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Show CALLS FOR MEN OF HEROIC MOLD Lightship Service No Place for Craven. Despite the antiquity of the lightship light-ship service, few Inhabitants of tlie United States are aware of the value and danger of tlie work performed-by performed-by Its personnel. Only the occasional occa-sional hurricane sweeping freakishly freakish-ly in from the sea Is sufficient to-bring to-bring It momentarily Into the public eve, George 11. Engeman writes In-(he In-(he Baltimore Sun. Following In the wake of a recent storm of this type have come many tales of tlie havoc It wrought and the bravery it revealed. Among-these Among-these must be recorded the feat of the crew of the Diamond Shoals lightship, standing watch off Cape Ilatterns, probably the most exposed ex-posed post on the Atlantic coast. They had the unusual experience of being blown, ship, heavy anchor ami all, on the dreaded shoals as the first phase of the hurricane exhausted exhaust-ed itself. Then came a lull and they made their way to safety before be-fore tlie second and more destructive destruc-tive period set in. At such times of stress arrive the crucial moments in every lightship-man's lightship-man's career. Other water-borne vessels, heeding the ancient warnings, warn-ings, scurry for the nearest harbor f ships many times the lightship's size change courses hurriedly when warned of the hurricane's imminent arrival and steam hundreds of expensive ex-pensive miles out of their courses; to avoid the fury of the wind. But to lightships no such ways of safety-are safety-are open. It is their duty to warn-, shipping away from tlie dangerou stretches of the coast line. As the storm increases the danger which these rocks and shoals represent repre-sent becomes increasingly greater. It is at the height of the storm that the lightship's warning Is needed most. So it must stand by In the-fury the-fury of the gale, doggedly banging on to its mooring, anchored on the-brink the-brink of disaster.' In from the sea sweeps the storm and the lightship swings desperately to it. Astern, toward to-ward the land, perhaps only a few-hundred few-hundred yards away, the great mountains moun-tains of waves suddenly are broken, up into white and violet foam the-work the-work of the ever-present shoal over which the lightship stands watch. Many a lightship with its crew has been lost on the rocks it has beeo assigned to guard. |