LIGHTHOUSE PERILS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13055, 25 April 1910, Page 3

LIGHTHOUSE PERILS.

The wild weather and heavy seas experienced on the English coast in the end of hebruary and beginning of March inters fered with the; regular, relief of the lighthouse men on the more exposed parts of the coast, and nowhere was this interruption worse than, at the-Eddystone, -where the jagged rocks, 14 miles from' Plymouth rising sheer out of 40 fathoms of water 5 ge n th xr fU H force of tlle Atlantic waves * On March (, the wind having lulled it was decided to attempt the relief, which was overdue by a fortnight. There are tour keepers in the Eddystone during the TJFrZ* ° nfe is Sieved every month 1 men three months in the ,-tower and one ashore The powerful steam tug Roarhound was chartered for the trip 'aud douMe crew shipped, numbering ght hands all told. A whaler-built : surf oat was towed.Out. On arriving off the ning S a ten ’ ibk sed was found to be run- . Tbepe was much difficulty in exchanging the men Communication was established 4 i lllß Lghthouse-keepers throwing into .the isea a large oil-can, to which was attached: a wire rope. This was secured by ■ va,S ( r v ° at ’ and tliß relief -man vas liauied up by a rope. Thb' man whose place he was taking came ’down in like fashpn, and the relief stores were'hauled pß‘fb \ timo the operation was finishrih wat b ° Ue 7Up to > er thwarts-