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Lost Boats #1 – Thomas Crosby V

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One of the interesting things about writing articles about lighthouses, is that one gets to do a lot of research on maritime matters such as boats, shipping, photography. My last article on the Thomas Crosby V (TCV) left me with the question, what happened to the ship itself? According to all the reports she was […]

Do You Remember This Aircraft?

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A friend sent me this Youtube link about the Dehavilland Beaver in an email and it brought back lots of memories of the British Columbia coast. This is the “Beaver Ballad” performed by the Fretless Bar Girls. What does a seaplane have to do with lighthouses? In the days before helicopters many of these DeHavilland […]

VIDEO-The Lighthouse and the Aircraft Carrier

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This is based on an actual radio conversation between a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln) and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. (The radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10/10/95 authorized by the Freedom of Information Act.)  Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the […]