A PLUCKY GIRL.
KEPT LIGHT GOING
LONDON, March 24
“I wasn’t a bit afraid. I know how to work tho lighthouse because I had often watched daddy,” Ethel Langton the 14-year-old daughter of the keeper of the St. Helens (Isle of AViglit) lighthouse, the most important in the English Channel, told her rescuers. Her parents went shoreward, three miles away, on March 10, but were unable to return owing to a gale. Ethel was alone and without sleep for three nights, but wound up every four hours the clockwork of tho revolving lantern. She possessed only half a loaf of bread.
Heavy seas defeated previous repeated attempts to relieve her, but finally it was accomplished, and tho rescue party found her fast asleep, her only companion being a fox terrier. Only the fact that her parents knew' that she was short of food persuaded the rescuers to attempt to take an open boat over a mile of raging seas. The girl /was forced to climb a 20-foot ladder to reach the lamp’s mechanism. It is revealed that Ethel and her sister Lily were in a similar predicament in 1923, tending the light while their parents were stormbound.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 2
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197A PLUCKY GIRL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 5 April 1926, Page 2
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