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In 1918 Congress authorized the construction of a replacement for Jessamine but failed to appropriate any money to fund the project. [59] In 1919 the Commissioner increased the estimated cost of her replacement to $400,000. [88] Finally on 5 June 1920, Congress acted to fund Jessamine's replacement. [60] Jessamine was decommissioned on 20 May 1921.
Hog Island Shoal Light, built in 1901, is a sparkplug lighthouse on a shoal off of Hog Island, Rhode Island. [2] [3] [4] It is located about 600 feet (180 m) southeast of the island, at the entrance to Mount Hope Bay. It stands on a circular concrete foundation set in about 10 feet (3.0 m) of water, and rising about 6 feet (1.8 m) above the ...
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]
The Hog Island Light was a lighthouse roughly marking its eponymous island, and thus the north side of the Great Machipongo Inlet on the Virginia coast. Originally, no light existed between Cape Henlopen, Delaware and Cape Charles. In 1830 the United States Congress appropriated money for a coastal beacon in the general vicinity of Chincoteague ...
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Former prosecutor Kash Patel, who president-elect Trump picked to head the FBI, appeared on a QAnon-themed internet show, CNN reports.
Three candidates are competing to represent Iowa's 4th Congressional District, which includes Council Bluffs, Sioux City and Ames in the northwestern quadrant of the state.