Marooned Lighthouse-keepers
(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 16. Only one of four emergency calls in the last 24 hours to aid sick and injured lighthouse keepers who are marooned have been answered, because of gales lashing the western and northern coasts. The sixth attempt to take off Principal-keeper Jordain from Eddystone failed, but Keeper Huxtable, of South Bishop Light, was lowered to a ship by a rope from the lighthouse. After four days without success, contact with the shore was made by lamp signal. Other messages were received from lightships off Land's End, on which the keeper was ill, and from Muckle Flugga, off Unst, Shetland Islands, on which the keeper was injured.
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Northern Advocate, 17 December 1938, Page 10
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