The Titanic and SCI

In April 1942, just months after the United States entered the War, a dim-out was issued for the eastern coast requiring buildings to dim all lights above the fifteenth floor to prevent silhouetting American merchant vessels, thereby making them easy targets for Nazi submarines. Rev. Harold H. Kelley, then Director of the Institute, wrote to Captain John S. Baylis of the U. S. Coast Guard requesting instructions on whether to suspend illuminating the Memorial Lighthouse. Captain Baylis suggested to Rev. Kelley that the Lighthouse be kept in operation due to the fact that the Sandy Hook Pilots rely on it to bring vessels into port, and so the green light shone on.