15 year old Ethel Langton lived in a sea fort off the Isle of Wight where her father was the keeper of its lighthouse. When a fearsome storm hit while her parents were ashore, stranding her alone for three days at the mercy of the gales, the welfare of the Solent's mariners lay entirely in her hands. 

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