when she resigned in march of NUMBER_TOKEN. though not lighthouses life-saving stations have a rich history here too richard etheridge appointed in NUMBER_TOKEN was commander of the pea island life-saving station in rodance north carolina the first of these stations in the u.s to have an all-black crew it would operate under a black crew for the next almost NUMBER_TOKEN years many lighthouse keepers lived on the lighthouse grounds with their families who often did a lot of work assisting the keepers themselves but some lighthouses were far too isolated for the families to live there like angel's gate lighthouse and isolation like that made it easy for stress and paranoia to get a grip on people in NUMBER_TOKEN head keeper at angel's gate john olson cited in his logbook second assistant keeper philip hughes suspended from duty for assaulting the keeper all keepers are instructed that in the future no distilled or malt lickers are to be brought to the station it was only eight months after the lighthouse had begun operating but this was on the tame end of the incidents that happened at the lighthouses one really bad one was actually one of the stories that inspired the lighthouse movie but big content warning for well corpse talk skip to this time to avoid it the small's lighthouse far off the coast of wales was seemingly cursed from the moment it began operation in NUMBER_TOKEN. it had structural issues right off the bat and the lighthouse's designer henry whiteside and a blacksmith journeyed up to smalls to make repairs months later after bad storms a letter and a cask that whiteside had thrown into the sea washed up on the welsh shore reading sir being now in a most dangerous and distressed condition upon the smalls do hereby trust providence will bring to your hand this which prayeth for your immediate assistance to fetch us off the smalls before the next spring or we fear we shall all perish our water near all gone our fire quite gone and our house in a most melancholy manner i doubt not but you will fetch us from here as fast as possible we can be got off at some part of the tide almost any weather i need say no more but remain your distressed humble servant henry whiteside we were distressed in a gale of wind upon the NUMBER_TOKENth of january since which we have not been able to keep any light but we could not have kept any light above NUMBER_TOKEN nights longer for want of oil and candles which makes us murmur and think we are forgotten thankfully whiteside and his team survived the ordeal but the troubles at smalls were not over NUMBER_TOKEN years later smalls gained two keepers thomas griffith and thomas howell two thomases sound familiar at some point it was noticed that the lighthouse had hoisted a distress signal but sea conditions made it impossible to land on the rock the boats that got close could see one of the keepers standing at the railing but couldn't pick out details ivor emilyn would describe what happened in a letter night after night saw some of them on the cliffs watching the lights fearful of something having befallen them both the non-appearance of a light would have been direct proof that such was the case but as regularly as they watched the light burned with its unusual brightness and gave no indication of the
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