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Swiftsure/Relief

Lightship #83 was launched in Camden, New Jersey, in 1904. She steamed around the tip of South America to her first station at Blunts Reef in California, where she saved 150 people when their ship ran aground in dense fog. Formerly known as Relief and now called Swiftsure, Number 83 had numerous names on her [...]

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