Manitowoc Breakwater Light

Manitowoc Breakwater Light
Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse
Location Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Coordinates 44°05′33.918″N 87°38′36.91″W / 44.09275500°N 87.6435861°W / 44.09275500; -87.6435861Coordinates: 44°05′33.918″N 87°38′36.91″W / 44.09275500°N 87.6435861°W / 44.09275500; -87.6435861[1]
Year first constructed 1918
Year first lit 1918
Automated 1971
Foundation Pier
Construction Steel
Tower shape Cylindrical on square fog signaling building
Height 40 feet (12 m)
Original lens Fourth order Fresnel lens
Range 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi)[1]
Characteristic White, Isophase, 6 sec[1]

The Manitowoc Breakwater Light is a lighthouse located near Manitowoc in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

Located on the north breakwater at the entrance of Manitowoc harbor.

USCG archive photo
Manitowoc Breakwater Light

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.

Further reading

  • Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
  • Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
  • Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes".
  • Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0-923568-47-6; ISBN 978-0-923568-47-4.
  • Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.
  • Seeing the light
  • Lighthouse friends article
  • NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
  • Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
  • Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.


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