Tag: Fire Island

Rescue from Fire Island

by Richard Green, posted in Digitization, U.S. Coast Guard, World War I

This post was written by Harry Kidd.  Harry is a volunteer at the National Archives working on textual and photographic digitization projects.  Harry is a former Navy photographer himself and came across this story while researching military photographers.  In the early morning of January 1st 1919 Surfman Roger Smith reported sighting the U.S.S. Northern Pacific … Continue reading Rescue from Fire Island

Navy Transport Stranded on Fire Island Beach

by wwade, posted in Photographs

I'm writing this blog post to highlight and provide a link to a recent article posted online by National Archives volunteer and Still Picture researcher Harry B. Kidd.  The article, "Navy Transport Stranded on Fire Island Beach", tells the story of the grounding of the USS Northern Pacific on the Fire Island sandbar and the … Continue reading Navy Transport Stranded on Fire Island Beach