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    Life Aboard a Coast Guard Lightship by George E. Rongner

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    • Publisher: Buy Books on the Web.Com
    • Pub. Date: May 2007
    • ISBN-13: 9780741438621
    • Sales Rank: 165,141
    • 260pp
     
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    This account chronicles the ceaseless dangers and constant tedium experienced by men living closely together at sea for lengthy periods of time, confined to the length and breadth of their ship, anchored in one location. It describes how differing personalities entwined, how they reacted to the boring routine, the piercing emanations of a fog signal, and perils from storms and passing vessels.

    Lightships, actually floating lighthouses, were employed by the United States for 130 years until they were phased out and replaced by buoys or fixed structures.

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