CHATHAM — A few steps from Chatham Lighthouse, on the elbow of Cape Cod, Petty Officer Third Class Sherman L. Baldwin settled into bed. Baldwin, 24, was on call that July evening in 2010 to serve as a ...

Members of the Chatham Flotilla of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will once again offer free public tours of the Chatham Lighthouse through the summer. More than 30 members of the flotilla have ...

There is something about lighthouses that fires the imagination, standing guardian as they do over the edge of things: land and sea, life and death, hope and despair, fear and heroism, tempest and ...

Great white sharks have entered Chatham Harbor, leading officials to close another beach to swimming.Effective immediately, Lighthouse Beach is closed to swimming until further notice.Receiver buoys ...

CHATHAM (CBS) – Lighthouse Beach in Chatham was reopened last Sunday afternoon following a shark sighting in the area earlier in the day, police said. The closure was announced at about 1:45 p.m.

CHATHAM (CBS) -- Authorities closed two Cape Cod Beaches Thursday due to a shark sighting. Both Lighthouse and Andrew Harding's beaches have been shut down, Chatham police tweeted. Lighthouse and ...

Chatham Lighthouse is the home of Coast Guard Station Chatham, where crews live and breathe search and rescue. Chatham is one of the service’s 20 designated surf stations and its crews are responsible ...

Before modern navigation systems like GPS and sonar became available, lighthouses were the final word on survival at sea. When you visit a lighthouse, you're standing at the edge between land and sea, ...

Much has been written about the glory that is Cape Cod in the summertime, and while there’s no denying the appeal of a New England weekend during the hottest months of the year, less has been said ...

For seafarers, lighthouses are beacons of hope. For the rest of us, they are a lesson in history. Nauset Light, located at Nauset Light Beach, and Chatham Light, at the Coast Guard Station in Chatham, ...