25 December 1914
ICE DESTROYS LIGHT BEACON
Mark at Entrance to Occoquan Creek is Swept Away
Ice sweeping out of Occoquan creek has carried away the light beacon marking the entrance to the waterway from the river, but it is stated that the lighthouse authorities will renew the light in the spring. The light just carried away was erected the latter part of the summer to replace the beacon carried away by drift ice last spring.
The lighthouse service tender Maple is reported in the river erecting the structure on which new beacon lights are to be placed at Glymont and White Stone point.
The appointment of Unaka B. Jennett, second officer of the lighthouse under Jessamine, to be the first officer of the tender Maple has recently been made by the lighthouse authorities. Mr. Jennett's appointment is made to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of E. J. Brittinham, who has retired from seafaring life and will make his home on the eastern shore of Maryland.
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