The federal divestiture of Old Saybrook’s Outer Light has been on hold since the meeting between Old Saybrook First Selectman Michael Pace, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the General Services Administration (GSA) on January 30, 2008.
According to Congressman Joe Courtney, the “GSA has not yet issued a notice of availability to date due [...]
After serving 39 years at Nantucket Shoals, Nantucket Lightship LV-112 has been bounced around New England and New York exchanging ownership seven times like a Yankee privateer ship escaping a British sea hunt (2).
In 1936, the British government paid $300,956 to build the largest American Lightship after their SS Olympic White Star liner sank the [...]
After receiving injuries on the property of Saugerties Lighthouse, Police Officer Sydney Mills has filed a civil suit against the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy for failing to maintain the half mile nature trail leading to the Lighthouse.
According to the news report, Officer Mills fell on the Lighthouse trail on Feb 25, 2007 and “sustained severe [...]
After years of neglecting Canadian Lighthouses, some of our Canadian cousins have acquired a profound sense of urgency to save the symbols of their maritime heritage.
After 24 years of automation, the Lighthouse was abandoned in 1983. According to the Canadian Coast Guard, Nottawasaga Island Lighthouse is structurally unstable when they deactivated the Lighthouse in [...]
Machias Seal Island, the nesting place of Atlantic puffins and a working Lighthouse, is in the Grey Zone of a maritime dispute between the American and Canadian governments.
Since the 1870s, both nations have claimed sovereignty of the island. The United States government refers to the 1783 peace treaty with Great Britain whereas the [...]
Since 1996, the following humorous story has been a urban legend circulating around the web. Ironically, the story was part of a Presidential speech ten years earlier!
“It reminds me of a favorite little story of mine about a career naval officer who finally got his four stripes, became a captain, and then was [...]
For one Legal Eagle, Lighthouses are a vacation paradise yet, Old Saybrook Town Attorney Michael Cronin views 30-year old abandoned Lighthouses as insurmountable legal problems! Hmm… wonder who the Prosecutor and Defense Attorneys are?
On a serious note, the federal disposal of Saybrook Breakwater Lighthouse is a growing concern for the town and rightfully [...]