Every 10 days, the lighthouse keepers of Pulau Satumu hand over their. The two men shake hands in greeting before turning to their charge: the 160-year-old Raffles Lighthouse, the second-oldest lighthouse in Singapore, after Horsburgh Lighthouse on Pedra Branca, four years its senior. Ecstatic that the infant had survived such an ordeal, he tied her as close to his chest for warmth, secured himself to the deck load of wreckage, and collapsed in exhaustion. Waiting on the jetty is his colleague, Mr Syed Hassan, 66. He successfully managed to lift it out of the water and found his sister’s infant daughter wrapped inside, barely wet. He agonized over the fact that all passengers and crew, including his sister, baby niece, and brother in law, had perished.Ī short time passed and the seas were starting to calm when he noticed a small bundle of heavy oilskin floating in the water towards him. He observed in horror as the first boat had capsized nearby and could not locate any survivors near it.
First Mate White managed to reach the surface and climbed atop a large piece of floating wreckage. The water filled vessel with its heavy cargo, which was starting to sink beneath the waves, sucking both men underwater. First Mate White and Captain Parker tried to drop the second boat into the rough seas, but the attempt was too late. As water started to fill into the schooner, the captain’s wife, baby, and crew members were quickly put into the first of two boats. South Stack Lighthouse earned itself a place in two books, Haunted Britain and South Stack: Anglesey’s Famous Lighthouse, thanks to its spectral resident lighthouse keeper, Jack Jones. I would have loved to be a lighthouse keeper though we do have a lighthouse in our department of the council and there is a. It is the relationships we make, the things we learn on the way and what we do with that learning that matters. The captain realized his ignorance too late, and as he started to shout to shorten the sails, fierce gusts of wind caught the fledgling canvas and started to tip the vessel into the raging sea. Now I think there is a lot more to life than the paid work we do and it shouldn’t define us. Maine’s most remote lighthouse on tiny rocky island.Īs the weather worsened, the waves strengthened and started to wash some of the deck cargo overboard.
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