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James A. Gibbs
James A. “Jim” Gibbs (January 17, 1922 - April 30, 2010) was an American author, lighthouse keeper, and maritime historian.
He put in four years with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, incl...visualizza altroJames A. “Jim” Gibbs (January 17, 1922 - April 30, 2010) was an American author, lighthouse keeper, and maritime historian.
He put in four years with the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, including offshore anti-submarine patrol duty and a stint as a lighthouse keeper at Tillamook Rock for a year beginning in 1945. In 1948 Gibbs was one of the five founders of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society.
Gibbs was the editor of “Marine Digest,” a Seattle maritime trade weekly, for twenty-four years, until 1972. His writing credits include Pacific Graveyard: A Narrative of the Ships Lost Where the Columbia River Meets the Pacific Ocean (1950), West Coast Windjammers in Story and Pictures (1968), Disaster Log of Ships: A Pictorial Account of Shipwrecks, California to Alaska (1971), and Lighthouses of the Pacific (1986).
Among his writing achievements are twelve “Anchor Awards,” presented annually by the Port of Seattle for excellence in journalism and writing in the maritime field.
Gibbs built and lived in Cleft of the Rock Light near Yachats, Oregon, the first privately owned working lighthouse in Oregon. He died there at the age of 88 in 2010.visualizza meno
Libri di James A. Gibbs
Tillamook Light: A True Account of Oregon’s Tillamook Rock Lighthouse