Courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Lighthouses.

The Lightship that went Ashore.

Columbia River vessel which blew over a sand-bar and had to be taken overland through a forest to be launched again.

Courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Lighthouses.

Guarding the Graveyard of the Deep.

The Diamond Shoal Lightship, anchored outside the quicksands off Cape Hatteras that no other vessel can face and live.