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Newport News Middle Ground Light: Newport News: 1891 [25] 1954 [25] Active VRB-25: 52 ft (16 m) [4] Old Plantation Flats Light: Cape Charles (Offshore) 1886 Never 1962 (Demolished) None 35 ft (11 m) Old Point Comfort Light: Hampton
An L-shaped shoal sits in the middle of major shipping lanes just off the coast of Hampton Roads, Virginia, creating a hazard in the 1880s as ships drew more water. The US Lighthouse Board identified the need for a lighthouse in this area in 1887, and, after several economizing changes to the design, construction began in 1890 and was completed ...
New Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, United States, off the tip of the Middle Peninsula. Finished in 1804, [ 3 ] it is the third-oldest surviving light in the bay, and the tenth-oldest in the United States.
Head over to the southern tip of Jamestown on Monday and climb to the top of Beavertail Lighthouse between 1:30 and 4 p.m. Visitors should note the following: Openings are weather dependent; if ...
A lighthouse tender was put on station to serve as a temporary lightship and a request was put to Congress to appropriate funds for a new lighthouse. LV-46 , assigned to tend the station, suffered a boiler casualty August 28, 1893, killing two of the crew, and was replaced by LV-97 until March 16, 1894, when LV-46 could return to the station.
Local viewpoints of the storm include Clearwater Beach, Siesta Key and the Southernmost Point in Key West. Keep in mind that these cameras could go offline in the event of a power or internet outage.
Thimble Shoal Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay, north of the Hampton Roads channel. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The third light at this location, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
The Ocean County Sheriff’s Office’s Drone Command Center, stationed right on Vision Beach in Seaside Heights, has three massive TV screens so deputies can track airplane traffic overhead ...