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Updated: June 1, 2025
Local heads of the coast-watchers or guards have the prerogative of commandeering horses or automobiles when necessary. If there is a ship ashore or on the rocks, signal-rockets are sent up to collect the coast-guards; and it would seem that a couple of these would wake most of the persons in that corner of England.
He was proud of the lighthouse, of which he was the principal keeper; and just before he started to explain to me the wonders of the compressed-air engines, he remarked: "First, you must know that a lighthouse-keeper's job is to watch for a fog." "What's your name?" I asked. He was the first real lighthouse-keeper I had met. The lighthouseman looked at me and then at one of the coast-watchers.
From John o' Groat's to Land's End and all around Ireland, these coast-watchers men over military age, wiry and strong, with eyes like ferrets scan the rocks and beaches hour after hour, noting passing vessels, receiving and detailing information, and always keeping up communication with the ring and its various centres.
Circling Great Britain are thousands of expert coast-watchers, whose duty not only is to watch for ships, wrecks, and smugglers, as in the days before the war, but also to be on guard for enemy submarines and suspicious craft. It is the oft-spoken opinion of many an inland inhabitant that certain sections of the coast would afford a base for U-boats.
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