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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2010
Caption: Overfalls Lightship nearby Memorial
Additional Description: The Lightship Overfalls LV-118/Wal-539 had a long, distinguished career marking the shoal waters and guiding ships to safe harbor on the East Coast. After decommissioning, the Coast Guard donated her to the Lewes Historical Society (LHS) and she was moved to this location in 1974, with the assistance of the City of Lewes, and the State of Delaware.

In 2001 the Overfalls Foundation, a local nonprofit group, received the lightship from the LHS. By 2010 the Overfalls Foundation had saved the lightship from deterioration, and preserved it through innumberable hours of volunteer labor and tremendous support by individuals, organizations, businesses, foundations, and government entities. "The Dirty Hands Gang" met on Tuesday mornings to clean, scrape, paint, and repair the lightship. Countless other overfalls Foundation volunteers worked on administrative, political, and social activities that were crucial to the restoration and saving of the ship for future generations.
Names and Organizations listed at left and right
Submitted: December 9, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p139658
File Size: 1.050 Megabytes

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