Lighthouse Handbook New England by Jeremy D'Entremont
Author:Jeremy D'Entremont
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
GRAVES LIGHT
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Geographic coordinates: 42° 21' 54" N 70° 52' 09" W
Nearest town: Winthrop. Located in outer Boston Harbor at the entrance to the Broad Sound Channel.
Established: 1905. Present lighthouse built: 1905.
Height of tower: 113 feet. Height of focal plane: 98 feet.
Earlier optic: First-order Fresnel lens. Present optic: VRB-25.
Characteristic: Two white flashes every 12 seconds.
Fog signal: Two blasts every 20 seconds.
An iron bell buoy was placed near the Graves Ledges in outer Boston Harbor in 1854. It was later replaced by a whistling buoy beyond the northeast end of the ledges; the sound of the buoy was described in a newspaper as a “shriek of despair.”
Keepers Fitzpatrick and Reamy circa 1935
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