Frank M. Johnson
Item Information
- Title:
- Frank M. Johnson
- Date:
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[ca. 1900]
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Portrait prints
- Location:
- Coast Guard Heritage Museum
- Collection (local):
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Coast Guard Heritage Museum General Collection
- Subjects:
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Shipwreck victims
Lightships
Aids to navigation
Shipwrecks--North Atlantic Ocean
United States. Coast Guard
- Extent:
- 1 print ; visible image 49 x 39 cm, in frame 77 x 67 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/t722nv139
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title supplied by cataloger.
Frank M. Johnson (South Yarmouth, MA) was on board the Cross Rip Lightship #6 in February 1918 when it vanished. He was a crew member of the ill-fated ship which was one of the oldest lightships in the fleet, built in 1855. Lightships were moored and anchored to the seabed in all weather in order to provide navigational aid near sandbars, reefs and dangerous shoals where lighthouses could not be built. Approximately February 4th the ship was swept out to sea, drifting with pack ice in a southeasterly direction without sails, motor propulsion or a radio. William Rose (Harwich), Arthur Joy, Bert Phillips and Almond Wixon (all of Dennis) were also on board. The lightship was last seen the morning of February 5th headed toward Great Round Shoal, northeast of Nantucket Island, with all hands on the ship’s rail and the ship’s ensign (flag) flying upside down as a distress signal. Presumably, pressure from the ice weakened the ship’s seams causing it to eventually take on water.
- Notes (ownership):
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Owned by: Frank Johnson family
- Notes (date):
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Date from accompanying material.
- Identifier:
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CGHM_0024
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