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Managing Organization:
U.S. Coast Guard
Tower Height: 45
Height of Focal Plane: 60
Description of Tower: White, cast iron cylindrical
This light is operational
Earlier Towers?
1823: Lightship; 1828: First tower, destroyed and replaced by lightship; 1850: screw pile type lighthouse.
Date Established: 1823
Date Present Tower Built: 1914
Date Automated: 1974
Optics: 1914: Third order Fresnel lens (now at Baymen's Museum in Tuckerton), now solar powered modern optic.
Fog Signal: Automated horn.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
Directions:
Accessible by boat only.
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