Long Beach Light
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| Location: | Long Beach Harbor, California |
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| Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS) |
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| Tower shape: | SG on white rectangular tower on building on columnar base. |
| Height: | 42 feet, 50 feet above sea level |
| Range: | 20 nm |
| Characteristic: | Flashing White 5s. Emergency light of reduced intensity when main light is extinguished. HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl). Operates continuously. |
Long Beach Light also known as the Long Beach Harbor Light is a lighthouse on Long Beach Harbor in California.
[edit] History
Long Beach Harbor Light looks different from the accepted version of a lighthouse. Labeled the "robot light" when established in 1949, it is completely automated and was the forerunner of the new version of 20th-century lighthouses on the West Coast. The 42-foot high white, rectangular tower with a columnar base, features a 36 inch airway type beacon and is controlled by the ANRAC system from Los Angeles Lighthouse. The three-story facility, of monolithic design, is built of concrete supported on six cement columns cast into six pockets of a crib. It does about everything automatic but walk. In its commanding position in San Pedro’s middle breakwater, the lighthouse was considered an uncanny mechanical wonder when first established, it no longer gets the "ooh’s" and "ahhh’s" it was once accorded. The latest navigation light of importance in the Long Beach area was erected atop the pilot station at the Port of Long Beach in 1968. Marking the harbor entrance channel, the light is accompanied by one of the United States Coast Guard’s new radar scanners.
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