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Show "cALLjTioi OF HEROIC Mi Li glil ship Service No for Craven. Despite the antiquity of t ship service, few Inhabitant, United States are aware of and danger of the work p-' by its personnel. Only t'-sional t'-sional hurricane sweeping ' ly in from the sea is sun' bring It momentarily Into t! eye, George II. Kngeman v.' the Baltimore Sun. Following in the wake of : storm of this type linve co ' tales of the havoc It wro' the bravery it revealed. :) these must be recorded tli the crew of the Diamon' lightship, standing watch ' Hatteras, probably the i' posed post on the Atlanf They had the unusual expr being blown, ship, heavy ai': nil, on the dreaded shoal ' first phase of the hurricanr ed itself. Then came a 5 they made their way to y fore the second and mors' tive period set in. ;!! At such times of stress f crucial moments In every ri man's career. Other vessels, heeding ihe nneii: !' Ings, scurry for the nearest ships many times the light-change light-change courses hurried"'1 warned of the hurricane's 3 arrival and steam hundred pensive miles out of tlicl to avoid the fury of the to lightships no such ways: are open. It Is their dut;-3-: shipping away from the 'i stretches of the coasi. lln -1 As the storm increases t !i! which these rocks and slic sent becomes Increasingly it is at the height of the the lightship's warning most. So it must stuid ; fury of the gale, dog,redl3l on to ils mooring, anchor' brink of disaster. In frois : sweeps the storm and tlu.S swings desperately to It. ward tiie land, perhaps oil hundred yards away, the gi:l. tains of waves suddenly i j 1 up into white and violet ai work of the ever-present jMc which the lightship stac.o-Many stac.o-Many a lightship with Its :ei been lost on the rocks lt-ia assigned to guard. |