Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for March 4th, 2024 After steaming out of New York City on December 1, 1917, filled with a staggering three thousand tons of TNT, benzene and gun cotton, this munitions ship the Mont-Blanc found its way up the Atlantic coast, through waters filled with enemy u-boats. After colliding with anotherContinue reading “‘The Narrows’ Halifax 1917”
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‘Romeo Observer Christmas’
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for December 4, 2023 This is a repeat of a blog from Christmas of 2020. I felt it was well worth posting the information yet again for any newer blog readers who might not have seen this article from that point in time. With this being the Christmas season, myContinue reading “‘Romeo Observer Christmas’”
Au Sable Point Lighthouse Lake Superior
Linda’s Monthly Monday Mornings Moaning’s for April 3, 20023 Two of the early lighthouses established on Lake Superior were at Whitefish Point in 1849 and on the northern end of Grand Island in 1856. In 1867, the Lighthouse Board felt that the eighty miles between these two early lights remained unmarked and requested $40,000 forContinue reading “Au Sable Point Lighthouse Lake Superior”
Mission Point Lighthouse
Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s for January 2, 2023 – Happy New Year! Sitting near the 45th Parallel between the water and forest on three sides, at the end of the Old Mission Peninsula, you will find the Mission Point Lighthouse. On the water side you can look out over the rocky beach at theContinue reading “Mission Point Lighthouse”
The Spectacle Reef Light Tragedy
Linda’s Monday Morning Monthly Moaning’s: The many lighthouse keepers would learn to live with danger every day. The building of Spectacle Reef light was considered on of the greatest engineering feats of its time in 1874. It would take 200 men, fair years to complete this light. The tower was 80 feet tall and hadContinue reading “The Spectacle Reef Light Tragedy”
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