4681. Munroe, Kirk. FROM LIGHT TO LIGHT – The Cruise of the Armeria, (lighthouse) Supply Ship.
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4681. Munroe, Kirk. FROM LIGHT TO LIGHT – The Cruise of the Armeria, (lighthouse) Supply Ship.
4681. Munroe, Kirk. FROM LIGHT TO LIGHT – The Cruise of the Armeria, (lighthouse) Supply Ship. Disbound from Scribners Magazine, 1896. 16pp. Describes the work of lighthouse tenders re-supplying light stations with their needed provisions. Author writes from aboard the tender Armeria, the largest of the fleet of tenders owned by the Lighthouse Service; “Her duty is to pay an anuual visit to every light station on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, from Calais,Me., to Point Isabel, Tex., and to deliver at each a year’s supply of oil and the other articles necessary for the maintenance of its light. In addition…she supplies the numerous post lights of the Connecticut , Hudson , Delaware , Potomac, James, Cape Fear , Savannah , St.John’s, and Indian Rivers….in her annual rounds, Armeria visits about 700 and supplies about 850 light stations.” Filled too with fine illustrations of the light stations including; Portland Head, Me.; Landing Supplies at West Quoddy, Me.; Heron’s Rock, Penobscot Bay, Me.; The Landing at Egg’s Rock in Frenchman’s Bay, Me., – Mount Desert in the Distance; United States Lighthouse Supply-Steamer Armeria; Pumpkin Island, Penobscot Bay, Me.; The Portland Breakwater; Saddleback Rock, Maine. Clean, crisp. (VG). $28.