Light Ship

20 minutes early Clark I know it's stifling below I couldn't sleep like the boy aft oh he can't sleep because he's lonely we better get off this station soon is that thunder or the reef the reef but there's lightning off to the east and the winds picking up very in first storm a bad one I'm afraid well

when you finish your fight why don't you turn in I'll take over the water what What was that? I thought I heard. The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind.

Today, Light Ship, based on the novel by Archie Bins, and adapted for radio by Draper Lewis. Before the perfection of the radio beacon, the light ships, which got our many miles of coastline, were equipped with an underwater bell, which worked simultaneously with the the fog horn during bad weather, dewarring passing ships of the dangerous reefs and serve

as a navigational aid. When visibility was good, two oil beacons, four and at, identified her position. It is aboard one of these early ships that our story takes place. One a seaman's length of service depended not only upon his efficiency, but his ability to survive the corrosive monotony of a long, uninterrupted months of duty aboard the tiny,

steel island of a light ship. And who was the last one to see him? The four bands, so I... He was sitting on his bunk when I went up to relieve the four o'clock watch.

He didn't say anything to me. He was just sitting there talking to himself. I put some coal on the stove in the galley, had a cup of coffee, and then went out on deck. I was going to say something when he passed me, but I know what to say.