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From the Archives: Raised From the Depths

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Shown here is the Lightship LV 49 at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in August of 1940 near the end of its life as a lightship. Built in 1891 by Harrison & Loring in South Boston, Massachusetts, the vessel first served as the Cape Charles Lightship in Virginia. On the night of November 11, 1925 while on station as the Hedge Fence Lightship in Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, the vessel was struck by the Danish freighter M.C. Holm and the lightship sank within fifteen minutes. The captain of the lightship, James B. Frizzell, said that the seas were calm and the night was clear and the collision never should have happened. All the lightship sailors survived. The lightship was eventually raised from its watery grave, refurbished, and put back into service. When this photo was taken, the vessel was serving as the Relief Lightship. It was retired from duty in 1941 and presumably sold.

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