Captain Joseph Napier : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Captain Joseph Napier / FotoGuy 49057
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| 説明 | Joseph Napier, keeper of St. Joseph's 19th-century life-saving station. It stood where the Coast Guard station stands today. One of the service's new fast-response cutters will be named for Napier, who is credited with leading a courageous rescue of men stranded on a storm-wrecked ship off St. Joseph in 1877. Napier was keeper of St. Joseph Life-Saving Station 6 and was responsible for multiple rescues on Lake Michigan, according to the Coast Guard. The most notable occurred Oct. 10, 1877, when the schooner D.G. Williams broke apart approaching the port in a storm.The schooner's crew of six clung to the rigging as Napier and three of his crewmen rowed into the violent lake, according to the Coast Guard Compass, the service's official blog.The rescue surfboat capsized on the first effort. The rescue crew righted and boarded the surfboat and reached the Williams, rescuing two sailors.The rescue boat got swamped on a second run, but the volunteers bailed out the water, battled rough seas and saved two more men.The rescue boat capsized on the third run, and Napier suffered a leg injury. One of the rescuers threw a line to Napier, who helped right the boat and row it to the Williams.The last two sailors were rescued and rejoined their fellow crewmen on shore.Napier Avenue, a major east-west road in Berrien County, is named for Joseph's brother, Nelson Napier. Nelson, a longtime commercial ship captain, died when his vessel, the Alpena, sank in a storm in 1882 off Holland, Mich. Some 60 crewmen and passengers died in the incident, according to Herald-Palladium files. a third brother, Jack, was also a ship captain. He died in a cannon explosion on St. Joseph's bluff on July 4, 1859. He tried to fire the cannon to celebrate Independence Day. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-05-01 17:07:22 |
| 撮影者 | FotoGuy 49057 |
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