Buzzards Bay Entrance Light

Buzzards Bay Entrance Light
1961 Texas Tower

Location	Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°23′49.12″N 71°2′4.87″W / 41.3969778°N 71.0346861°W / 41.3969778; -71.0346861Coordinates: 41°23′49.12″N 71°2′4.87″W / 41.3969778°N 71.0346861°W / 41.3969778; -71.0346861
Year first constructed	1847 (lightships) 1961 (Texas Tower) 1997 (current structure)
Automated	1980
Foundation	Steel piles filled with concrete
Construction	Steel
Tower shape	Tower, on red square on 3 piles with large tube in center
Markings / pattern	Red, with "BUZZARDS"
Focal height	67 feet (20 m)
Range	17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi)
Characteristic	Fl W 2.5s
Fog signal	HORN: 2 every 30s
Racon	"B" (Bravo)
Admiralty number	J0480
ARLHS number	USA-100
USCG number	1-630^[1]^[2]^[3]

Buzzards Bay Entrance Light is a lighthouse located in open water at the entrance to Buzzards Bay, about four nautical miles west southwest of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts.

The light has a racon showing the letter "B".^[2] The new light tower is similar to the new Ambrose Light built in 1999 but dismantled in 2008 after a ship struck it.

In 1996 the present structure replaced a Texas Tower built in 1961, which in turn had replaced the lightships Hens & Chickens (LV-5) and Vineyard Sound (LV-10). Since it sits in water 50 ft (15m) deep, a conventional lighthouse would have been difficult, forcing the choice of structure.^[1]

References

1 2 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Massachusetts". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
1 2 Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2013. p. 7.
↑ Rowlett, Russ (2009-12-15). "Lighthouses of the United States: Southeast Massachusetts". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lighthouses of Massachusetts

Annisquam Harbor Bakers Island Billingsgate Island Bird Island Bishop and Clerks Borden Flats Boston Brant Point Broad Sound Channel Butler Flats Buzzards Bay Entrance Cape Ann Cape Poge Chatham Clark's Point Cleveland East Ledge Cuttyhunk Deer Island Derby Wharf Dumpling Rocks Duxbury Pier East Chop Eastern Point Edgartown Harbor Egg Rock Fairhaven Bridge Falmouth Inner Fort Pickering (Winter Island) Gay Head The Graves Great Point Highland Hospital Point Range Front Hospital Point Range Rear Hyannis Rear Range Ipswich Range Long Island Head Long Point Lovells Island Range Marblehead Mayo Beach Minot's Ledge Monomoy Point Nantucket Beacon Nantucket Cliff Range Nantucket Harbor Range Nauset Ned Point Newburyport Harbor Front Range Newburyport Harbor Newburyport Harbor Rear Range Nixes Mate Nobska Old Scituate Palmer Island Plymouth Point Gammon Race Point Sandy Neck Sankaty Head Spectacle Island Range Stage Harbor Straitsmouth Island Tarpaulin Cove Ten Pound Island Thacher Island North Three Sisters of Nauset West Chop West Dennis Wing's Neck Wood End

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