Word: nantucketer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four dashes, repeated for one minute every three minutes, is the radio beacon signal of the lightship that guards dread Nantucket Shoals. The first lightship was stationed off the shoals in 1854. Three years ago Lightship No. 117, a 132-ft. craft equipped with every device science could think of to protect transatlantic shipping, was launched at Charleston, S. C. and took up its rough and lonely post 40 mi. southeast of Nantucket Island...
With the imprisonment of the captors, the Gettle story was the first to sag. Not so the case of June Robles, who all over the U. S. continued to hold a commanding position in the news with the Nantucket lightship disaster, the Chaco War, the drought, the Pennsylvania primary...
...sinking of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday afternoon provokes many, upon hasty judgment, into scathing condemnation of steamship companies, captains, and speedy runs, but a careful study of the facts already known and those that will be brought out in the Lighthouse Service Investigation will show the weakness of snap judgments. Granted that the "Olympic" was in the wrong according to decisions of Admiralty Courts which hold that in case a ship is unable to stop in time to prevent a collision she is going too fast for the conditions, yet in this unique instance there are many extenuating circumstances...
Thomas Blair Husband, of Nantucket...
...divorce. Of aviation he wrote as a layman to laymen, amateurishly twanging the Hearst harp for larger U. S. air defenses. ¶Swallowed up in last week's hurricane was the sloop Postscript manned by three young Manhattan neighbors of President Roosevelt. Out of Manasquan, N. J. for Nantucket had sailed Pierre Irving, 21, great-grandnephew of Washington Irving, and the Niles Brothers, John, 23. and Charles, 16. sons of Dr. Walter Niles who lives around the corner from the President on East 64th Street. The seagoing President ordered the Coast Guard specially mobilized to search for these neighbors...