The ship’s crew work hand in hand with helicopter pilots who transfer these supplies from the ship to the lighthouse ... rely on local ferryman Shifty to sail them, along with everything ...

Before 1875, ships sailing by the North Carolina coast faced a 40-mile "blind spot" between Bodie Island and Virginia's Cape Henry. Then, the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla was created.

With heavy fog and windy conditions, sailing into San Francisco Bay has long been a hazardous affair. Then, in 1870, things got a lot safer with the construction of the Point Reyes Lighthouse.

Maine’s lighthouses started getting built in the late 1700s as navigational beacons for the many sailing ships coming from ...