Off shore Light Station to Start Trip. Huge steel jacket (background) of the Buzzards Bay off-shore light is ready to be floated by pontoons to its location at Buzzards Bay, Mass., Wednesday as Warren E. Moore of Reading, Mass., (left) Civil Engineer's District Representative of the U.S. Coast Guard and Noble Christensen, Hull Supt. of the General Ship and Engine works of Boston go over last minute preparations today (Aug. 14) at Boston. It will require 14 hours to tow the Jacket to the site. Also shown is the 30-inch steel pile which will be driven 261 feet below to bed rock, using the 33-inch hollow legs of the Jacket for guidance.

Associated Press · [ca. August 1961]

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