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On Wolf Rock Lighthouse, a dreary eight miles off Land's End, England, three lighthouse keepers were stormbound in January 1948 for 33 cold winter days. They sent letters back to the mainland by arching a rocket into the air from the lighthouse base, shooting a line to a relief boat as shown.
Finally, on February 16 of that year, as shown in these dramatic photographs that appeared in the March 1948 issue of Life magazine,
a boat was able to get close enough to take them off the island.
This story appeared in the
December 2005 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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