James A. Gibbs Explained
James A. Gibbs should not be confused with Jimmy Gibb.
James A. Gibbs |
Birth Date: | 17 January 1922 |
Birth Place: | Seattle |
Death Place: | home at Cleft of the Rock Light |
Nationality: | American |
Occupation: | 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.[1] In 1948 Gibbs was one of the five founders of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society.[2] 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.[3]
Works
- Book: James Gibbs, Jr. . Pacific Graveyard: A Narrative of the Ships Lost Where the Columbia River Meets the Pacific Ocean . 1950, 1964. 1993 . Binford & Mort Pub. . 978-0-8323-0481-1.
- Book: Jim Gibbs . West Coast Windjammers in Story and Pictures . 978-0-517-17060-1 . 1968. Superior Publishing Company .
- Book: Jim Gibbs . Disaster Log of Ships-a Pictorial Account of Shipwrecks, California to Alaska . 978-0-517-16982-7 . 1971. 1978 . Superior Publishing Company .
- Book: Jim Gibbs . Maritime Memories of Puget Sound, in Photographs and Text . 978-0-88740-044-5 . 1976 . Joe D. Williamson . Schiffer Pub. . Joe D. Williamson .
- Book: James A. Gibbs . Lighthouses of the Pacific . 978-0-88740-054-4 . 1986. Schiffer Pub. .
- Book: Jim Gibbs . Peril at Sea: a Photographic Study of Shipwrecks in the Pacific . 978-0-88740-066-7 . 1986. 1997. Schiffer Pub. .
- Book: Jim Gibbs . Sentinels of Solitude: West Coast Lighthouses . 978-0-945092-06-3 . 1981. 1989 . Chad Ehlers. EZ Nature Books .
- Book: Jim Gibbs . Windjammers of the Pacific Rim . 978-0-88740-086-5 . 1987. 1997 . Phillip Drucker. Schiffer Pub. .
- Book: James A. Gibbs . Lighthouses of the Pacific . 978-0-88740-054-4 . 1997. Schiffer Pub. .
- Book: James A. Gibbs . Oregon's Seacoast Lighthouses: Oregon Documentary, Includes Nearby Shipwrecks . 978-0-936738-57-4 . June 2003 . Bert Webber . Webb Research .
- Book: James A. Gibbs . Lighthouses of the Pacific . 978-0-7643-2463-5 . April 2007. Schiffer Publishing, Limited .
- Book: Jim Gibbs . Pacific Square-Riggers: Pictorial History of the Great Windships of Yesteryear . 978-0-88740-106-0 . 1969, 1987. 2007. Schiffer Pub. .
- James A. Gibbs, Jr. (1953). Tillamook Light.
Notes and References
- Web site: Tillamook Rock Light . Rudy and Alice's Lighthouse page . 2008-11-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110105092229/http://rudyalicelighthouse.net/NWLts/Tillamk/Tillamk.htm . 2011-01-05.
- http://www.pugetmaritime.org/History.htm Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society – History (official site)
- News: James A. Gibbs . News Times . Newport, Oregon . 2015-05-17 . 2010-05-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307000842/http://newportnewstimes.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=74&story_id=22668 . 2016-03-07 .