. The light keepers : a story of the United States Light-House Service . HICD< N _lul LUD_< o. rA LESSON ON BUOYS. 131 The sea-going qualities of the large buoysare shown by their volunteer voyages. One is nowanchored off the coast of Ireland, where it was pickedup, about six weeks after it had been wrenched fromits place in New York harbor, and turned over to theIrish light-house establishment, by which it was re-ported to the United States Light-House Board,when it was presented to the Irish Board, who simplyadded to its former marks their own, and moored itnear the point where it came
. The light keepers : a story of the United States Light-House Service . HICD< N _lul LUD_< o. rA LESSON ON BUOYS. 131 The sea-going qualities of the large buoysare shown by their volunteer voyages. One is nowanchored off the coast of Ireland, where it was pickedup, about six weeks after it had been wrenched fromits place in New York harbor, and turned over to theIrish light-house establishment, by which it was re-ported to the United States Light-House Board,when it was presented to the Irish Board, who simplyadded to its former marks their own, and moored itnear the point where it came ashore, in commemora-tion of its peculiar voyage. The iron ice-buoy is made of boiler-iron, and isdivided into compartments, so that any one may bepierced without sinking the buoy. One of the first-class costs $275, is fifty feet long, and stands twenty-two feet out of water. One of the second-class costs$181, is forty feet long, and stands seventeen feetout of water. As with wooden spar-buoys, the icepasses over them without carrying them away; but,unlike the wooden buoys, they break the prope
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