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American historian
James A. Gibbs
Born (1922-01-17 ) January 17, 1922Died April 30, 2010(2010-04-30) (aged 88) Nationality American Occupation(s) Historian, lighthouse keeper
James A. "Jim" Gibbs (January 17, 1922 – April 30, 2010) was a United States author, lighthouse keeper, and
maritime historian .
He was one of the lighthouse keepers at
Tillamook Rock Light for a year beginning in 1945.
[2] In 1948 Gibbs was one of the five founders of the
Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society .
[3]
He was the editor of Marine Digest magazine until 1972.
He built and lived in
Cleft of the Rock Light near
Yachats, Oregon , "the first privately owned working lighthouse in Oregon" until his death on April 30, 2010.
[1]
James Gibbs, Jr. (1993) [1950, 1964]. Pacific Graveyard: A Narrative of the Ships Lost Where the Columbia River Meets the Pacific Ocean . Binford & Mort Pub.
ISBN
978-0-8323-0481-1 .
Jim Gibbs (1968). West Coast Windjammers in Story and Pictures . Superior Publishing Company.
ISBN
978-0-517-17060-1 .
Jim Gibbs (1978) [1971]. Disaster Log of Ships-a Pictorial Account of Shipwrecks, California to Alaska . Superior Publishing Company.
ISBN
978-0-517-16982-7 .
Jim Gibbs;
Joe D. Williamson (1976). Maritime Memories of Puget Sound, in Photographs and Text . Schiffer Pub.
ISBN
978-0-88740-044-5 .
James A. Gibbs (1986). Lighthouses of the Pacific . Schiffer Pub.
ISBN
978-0-88740-054-4 .
Jim Gibbs (1997) [1986]. Peril at Sea: a Photographic Study of Shipwrecks in the Pacific . Schiffer Pub.
ISBN
978-0-88740-066-7 .
Jim Gibbs; Chad Ehlers (1989) [1981]. Sentinels of Solitude: West Coast Lighthouses . EZ Nature Books.
ISBN
978-0-945092-06-3 .
Jim Gibbs; Phillip Drucker (1997) [1987]. Windjammers of the Pacific Rim . Schiffer Pub.
ISBN
978-0-88740-086-5 .
James A. Gibbs (1997). Lighthouses of the Pacific . Schiffer Pub.
ISBN
978-0-88740-054-4 .
James A. Gibbs; Bert Webber (June 2003). Oregon's Seacoast Lighthouses: Oregon Documentary, Includes Nearby Shipwrecks . Webb Research.
ISBN
978-0-936738-57-4 .
James A. Gibbs (April 2007). Lighthouses of the Pacific . Schiffer Publishing, Limited.
ISBN
978-0-7643-2463-5 .
Jim Gibbs (2007) [1969, 1987]. Pacific Square-Riggers: Pictorial History of the Great Windships of Yesteryear . Schiffer Pub.
ISBN
978-0-88740-106-0 .
James A. Gibbs, Jr. (1953). Tillamook Light.
ISBN
978-0832303340
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