Sentinel of the Seas: Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.18 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806528427 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sandra S. Nuss said An other great book from Dennis Powers. Really enjoyed this book, Keeps you interested and the tale of building St. George Lighthouse is amazing. A harrowing tale of perseverance for ten years in all kinds of weather.Also included is Lighthouse keepers at other lighthouses and a chaper on Women Lighhouse keepers. Mr Powers really does his homework when he writes his books and I have enjoyed working with him on three of his books at the Del Norte Conty Historical Society Museum in Crescent City California where three of his books have their roots.Sandra Nuss Researcher, Del Norte Co. Histo. Just imagine Audrey I loved this book! Dennis Powers's "Sentinel of the Seas" is thoroughly captivating. Each chapter is filled with fascinating descriptions of the men---and there were heroic women too---who risked everything in order to secure the west coast. There are tales of immigrants who could only find work that no one else wanted, so those men took brutally hard jobs. Powers ties together the social, economic, and political scenes to portray life at a time when if a man was out of a job for whatever reason, he was simply out of luck.Before the Oregon Territory. This is great adventure reading, brilliantly written. Reader Views Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (5/07)"Sentinel of the Seas" reads like a novel. Dennis Powers has written another classic masterpiece which chronicles man battling the sea. As in his earlier works "Treasure Ship" and "The Raging Sea," Powers has thoroughly researched his work. He spent five years in preparation, searching archives, original journals, dairies, ship logs, Lighthouse Board Reports, and doing personal interviews of survivors, and their families. The lighthouse was built on St. George Reef which is one of the most hazardou
George job, and it's this story that author Powers (Treasure Ship) chronicles here. . From Publishers Weekly One of the most rugged expanses in the continental U.S., the coast of northern California and Oregon saw frequent shipping disasters in the 19th century, before Congress ordered the construction of lighthouses on such dangerous promontories as Heceta Head, Cape Mendocino and a seaward-trending pile of rocks called St. Later chapters describing lighthouse life prove less problematic; lighthouse keepers were fascinating, courageous characters (and included a good number of women) who not only kept lights burning and fog horns sounding, but also risked life and limb to r
The result took ten years to construct and cost as much as twenty conventional lighthouses. Brother Jonathan sank on one of the rocks with the loss of 225 souls, inspiring an extraordinary effort to make the waters safe. And for over a century, it has been home to the most remote, most expensive, and most dangerous lighthouse ever built in America. In 1951 a rogue wave capsized a Coast Guard launch being lowered from the lighthouse, challenging keeper Fred Permenter to attempt a nearly impossible rescue that would win him a place in Coast Guard history. Powers's reputation as one of our finest chroniclers of the sea.. Concealed by roiling sea and thick fog, the jagged edges of a submerged volcanic mountain chain await approaching vessels like predators in the mist. The author takes readers back to the dawn of lighthouse design, charting the dramatic moments and the courageous people who have shaped a struggle against the oceans that culminates in the singular experience of St. Called "Dragon Rocks" in 1792 by British explorer George Vancouver, the area be