Digest>Jan/Feb 2021

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The Diamond Shoal Light Vessel No. 71 moored off Cape Hatteras prior to being sunk by Germany’s U-140 on August 6, 1918. All 12 crew members escaped and rowed to shore. The 122-foot-long lightship was built by Bath Iron Works Ltd., Maine, in 1897. (Lighthouse Digest archives)
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150th Anniversary of the First Lighting of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on Dec 16, 2020
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