One of my listeners posted this on our Waffle On page today, a Pete says it could be a fake (but you never know ) I couldn't stop laughing.
http://youtu.be/oei2lB9MBo0 (http://youtu.be/oei2lB9MBo0)
I've heard various versions of this over the years. I'd love to know if it ever really happened. I think the first lighthouse I heard this about was Canadian.
That is a myth: http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp (http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp)
I have heard it about the Royal Navy, and about the US vs. a Canadian light house.