Keeper Logs a Mayday No One Else Heard: The Kepwick Light
Keeper Logs a Mayday No One Else Heard: The Kepwick Light
The wind was fifty miles an hour and a lighthouse logbook recorded a Mayday at 4:52 a.m. with a grid position and the single word "Kepwick" written cleanly in ink-yet no one else heard it and no instrument recorded it. What happened between a photographed, timestamped entry and a Coast Guard search that turned up nothing?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, primary records, and the unanswered discrepancy that kept a maritime journalist working for eleven months: why did an assistant keeper log a distress call on Channel…
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