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Lansing Shoal Light Station (1974 source record)

Also Lansing Shoal crib light

TypeLight station
ErasModern era

Summary

Lansing Shoal Light Station was described in January 1974 as a five-man crib light approximately eight miles north of Beaver Island. Two crew members left in a small open boat on New Year’s Eve and became trapped in drift ice near Garden Island.

Evidence and limits

This is a source-bounded light-station record. The issue does not provide the station’s coordinates, construction or operating history, official agency identity, or the other three crew members’ names.

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, January 1974, “Men Against The Sea.”
    Calls Lansing Shoal Light Station a five-man crib-light crew station approximately eight miles north of Beaver Island; it does not provide coordinates, construction history, agency records, or the names of the other three crew members.
    beaver_beacon · 1974-01_Beaver-Beacon