- Source: Annie C. Maguire
Annie C. Maguire was a British three-masted barque sailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 24 December 1886, when she struck the ledge at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Lighthouse Keeper Joshua Strout, his son, wife, and volunteers rigged an ordinary ladder as a gangplank between the shore and the ledge against which the ship was heeled. Captain O'Neil, the ship's master, his wife, two mates, and the nine-man crew clambered onto the ledge and then, one by one, crossed the ladder to safety.
The cause of the wreck is puzzling, since visibility was not a problem. Members of the crew reported they "plainly saw Portland Light before the disaster and are unable to account for same."
Today, letters painted on the rocks below the lighthouse commemorate the wreck and the Christmas Eve rescue.
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References
External links
"New England Lighthouses: Christmas Eve at Portland Head Light, 1886". nelights.blogspot.co.uk.
"Wreck of the Annie C. Maguire, December 24, 1886". mainememory.net.
"Portland Head Lighthouse History". lighthouse.cc.
"Wreck of the Annie C. Maguire". nelights.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2011.
"Annie C. Maguire shipwreck site". Ron Bennett Photography. 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
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