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  2. Musselbed Shoals Light - Wikipedia

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    The shoals in this area were already marked by a stone daybeacon when the lighthouse board recommended construction of a light in 1871. [2] This followed some years of unsuccessful attempts to replace the lightship at Hog Island Shoal with a fixed light (the two shoals forming the edges of the channel leading into Mount Hope Bay). [3]

  3. Old Caloundra Light - Wikipedia

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    The lighthouse was the fifth in a group of eight lighthouses of its type, made of hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron, which included, by order of establishment Little Sea Hill Light, Grassy Hill Light, Goods Island Light, Bay Rock Light, itself, North Point Hummock Light (demolished), Gatcombe Head Light (demolished) and Bulwer Island ...

  4. Conservation and restoration of lighthouses - Wikipedia

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    Wood was either used for construction on the exterior or in combination with masonry and/or iron to build components of the lighthouse (ex. stairs). The largest cause for deterioration of wood in lighthouses is from exposure to moisture. This exposure is normally the result of direct and prolonged exposure to damp conditions.

  5. Thomas Point Shoal Light - Wikipedia

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    A stone lighthouse was constructed in 1825 on shore at Thomas Point [3] by John Donahoo, Thomas Point Light.It was replaced in 1838 by another stone tower. The point was subject to continuing erosion (which would eventually bring down the lighthouse on the point in 1894), [6] and in 1873 Congress appropriated $20,000 for the construction of a screw-pile structure out in the bay, Thomas Point ...

  6. Henri de Miffonis - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Miffonis drew more conventional lighthouse plans, [15] in particular that of Cap-Chat built in 1909. [21] [22] The quadrangular structure is framed by four concrete pillars connected by wooden walls bent at the top by steel beams. [15] The plaster which was originally intended to cover the walls was instead covered with a facing of ...

  7. Dry Tortugas Light - Wikipedia

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    The first lighthouse in the Dry Tortugas was on Garden Key, and became operational in 1826. [7] After several proposals for a new lighthouse on the "outer shoals" of the Dry Tortugas, a new lighthouse was built on Loggerhead Key and completed in 1858 at a cost of US$35,000 ($1.23 million in 2023), which was the amount that had been projected to ...

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  9. Cape Bonavista Light - Wikipedia

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    Bonavista lighthouse with inuksuk in front, 2013. The lighthouse at Cape Bonavista was built between 1841 and 1843 to mark the entrances to Bonavista and Trinity bays and to aid mariners headed for Labrador. It is the fourth-oldest lighthouse in Newfoundland. The two-story wooden building is constructed around a masonry tower surmounted by a ...

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