The Life Savers of Cape Cod
Author: John Wilfred Dalton
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 184
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Author: John Wilfred Dalton
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 184
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 152
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Publisher: Chatham Press
Published: 1967-01
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Claflin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467122130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries, heroic men and women have guarded the treacherous yet beloved Cape Cod coastlines. From Provincetown to Chatham, Sandwich to Cuttyhunk, and many towns in between, residents have relied on the Atlantic for employment and nourishment. But Cape Cod has always been plagued with a shifting coastline that consistently defies mariners' efforts to pass through Massachusetts waters. In 1792, as shipping increased, mariners petitioned for a sorely needed lighthouse. It was not until 1797 that the first lighthouse on Cape Cod was built at the Highlands in North Truro. More lights and rescue stations would follow as the seas claimed their toll. Many lightship stations were also established from Chatham through Nantucket Sound to mark the constantly changing sandbars submerged offshore--more than in any other spot along the US coastline. Today, as sea levels change and sands continue to shift, some of these historic stations have been lost or moved, while still others are preserved only in such photographs as these.
Author: John Wilfred Dalton
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Wilding
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-05-24
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1467147192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod's outer beach--often referred to as the "Graveyard of Ships"--saw the demise of more than three thousand vessels along forty miles of shifting shoals. The October Gale of 1841 claimed the lives of fifty-seven sailors from Truro, a devastating toll for a small seaside community. Survivors from the 1896 wreck of the Monte Tabor in Provincetown were arrested for a suspected mutiny. Aboard the Castagna, which stranded off Wellfleet in 1914, several sailors froze to death in the masts, while the crew's cat survived. Local author Don Wilding revisits these and many other maritime disasters, along with the heroic, and sometimes tragic, rescue efforts of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard.
Author: William Chauncy Langdon
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 76
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 484
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 246
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