The mast is gone.
The historic mast sticking up out of the 11th Street beach in Barnegat Light for the last six decades is gone – a souvenir swiped by Hurricane Erin as she made her way past LBI this week.
Barnegat Light Mayor Kirk Larson remembers when the Sea King ran aground.
“I was sitting at the breakfast table,” he said. “We heard it on the radio in 1963. My dad (John Larson) ran upstairs, looked out the attic window on 12th Street and saw the mast.
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