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unusual facts about lighthouse keeper



Eben Emerson

Eben Emerson was an American lighthouse keeper who served at Wood Island Light, Maine from 1861 to 1865.

Royston Tickner

He served in the Royal Navy in World War II and from 1947 took a break from the theatre to work as a lighthouse keeper, miner, fireman and publican, before returning to acting in 1958.

Scotch Cap Light

In 1945, Anthony Petit was assigned the lighthouse keeper to the Scotch Cap Light as the head of a five-man crew.


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Cape Canaveral Light

William H. Peck wrote about his meeting with lighthouse keeper Mills Burnham of Cape Canaveral in the Florida Star newspaper in 1887.

Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse

The young Felix von Luckner, later a German WWI war hero noted for his long voyage on the Seeadler during which he captured 14 enemy ships, was briefly assistant lighthouse keeper, a job he abandoned when discovered with his hotel keeper's daughter by her father.

Cockspur Island Light

Florence Martus, The Waving Girl, famous sister of the lighthouse keeper.

MV Craigantlet

The lighthouse keeper raised the alarm, and Craigantlet's crew was rescued via airlift by a Sea King from 819 Squadron based at the stone frigate HMS Gannet at Glasgow Prestwick International Airport.

MV Nimbin

The steamer Arakoon which had been loaded a quantity of salvage gear and had dispatched from Sydney late on the Monday night to assist the Nimbin was advised the same morning that the Nimbin was refloated by a message sent from the lighthouse-keeper at Seal Rocks.

Simon Day

Also in 2005/2006 he collaborated with The Transit Kings on their soaring ambient track "The Last Lighthouse Keeper" which appears on their debut album Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God.

Sound of Sunforest

"Lighthouse Keeper" was also featured in television series The Maxx.

St. Augustine Light

The male figure is said to possibly be Civil War hero and former lighthouse keeper William A. Harn.

Troy Town

"Troy", a beautiful maze in a private garden at Troy Farm, Somerton, Oxfordshire is rather larger, and "Troy Town" maze on St Agnes, the Isles of Scilly, is a small maze of turf and small stones and is reputed to have been laid down in 1729 by the son of a local lighthouse keeper.