Digest>Mar/Apr 2017

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This early view of the Manana Island Fog Signal Station shows that it was a family station. Notice the clothing hanging out to dry from the fresh ocean breezes. Look closely and you will see the old fog bell on top rocks. Originally, before more modern equipment was installed, the fog signal keeper had to ring this bell by hand, sometimes for hours on end. Beatrice Faulkingham Woodward, wife of William Woodward, who was the assistant keeper of the Manana Island Life Saving Station from 1924 to 1926 and then the head keeper from 1928 to 1934, said that the best years of her life were when she lived on Manana Island. This was an amazing statement for her to make, because being the daughter of lighthouse keeper Albion Faulkingham and then marrying a lighthouse keeper, she spent most of her life living at remote island lighthouses, many of them being much more hospitable than Manana Island. (Lighthouse Digest archives.)
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The Roving Fog Bell of the Manana Island Fog Signal Station
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