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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Notes:
The port at Hueneme is the only deep water port between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Clayton Parkinson sent the following: "About Point Hueneme Light, in the late sixties I was stationed there as an engineman. We had a 40-footer that was kept at the Seabee base at Port Hueneme for search and rescue operations. In the lighthouse we had a radio room were we had a radio watch 24 hours a day. we also maintained the light and loran on Anacapa Island. There was 4 houses and a barracks house at Port Hueneme, and on Anacapa Island we had a crew of 3 who would spend a month at a time on the island. I was the last one off the island in 1969 when it was automated. Nice to see these two lighthouses have not been forgotten."
Tower Height: 48
Height of Focal Plane: 52
Description of Tower: Square white Art Moderne concrete tower on fog signal building.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
1941 concrete Art Moderne fog signal building.
Earlier Towers?
1874: Square tower rising from dwelling.
Date Established: 1874
Date Present Tower Built: 1941
Date Automated: 1972
Optics: 1941: Fourth order Fresnel lens.
Fog Signal: Originally a diaphone horn.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Can be viewed by walking north on a path behind a breakwater from the beach area around the Hueneme fishing pier.
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