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A tale of two life-saving station restorations, 750 miles apart

By Jared Berezin. Reprinted with permission from the North Bennet Street School in Boston, MassachusettesOn August 16, 1918, a patch of the Atlantic Ocean caught fire. A British tanker, the SS Mirlo, was transporting fuel off the coast of North Carolina when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. A series of explosions split the tanker in two, setting the ocean ablaze with gasoline and filling the sky with black smoke. Coast Guardsmen on a near…
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Island Free Press broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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