Frank Drew (lighthouse keeper)

Frank Drew (lighthouse keeper)

Frank Albert Drew (1864 – 1931) was a lighthouse keeper. He was Assistant Keeper Pilot Island Light 1899-1903, First Assistant Keeper, Green Island Light-Station 1903 -1909, Keeper Green Island Light-Station 1904 – 1929.

The United States Coast Guard coastal buoy tender Frank Drew (WLM-557) based in Portsmouth, Virginia is named after him

External links

*http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-a/awl/bclass/wlm/frank.htm


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