Kennebunkport Breakwater Light

Kennebunkport Breakwater Light 6
Location Kennebunkport, Maine
Coordinates
Tower shape Triangular Red Dayboard on Spindle
Markings / pattern Red
Focal height 25ft (8m)
Range 5nm
Characteristic Iso R 6s
Fog signal none
USCG number 1-8165

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Kennebunk Pier Light
Location Kennebunkport, Maine
Year first constructed before 1857
Deactivated destroyed after 1857
Tower shape Tower
Markings / pattern White
Height 11 feet (3m)
Focal height 22ft (7m)
Original lens 6th order Fresnel Lens
Range 8nm
Characteristic Fixed R

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Kennebunk Breakwater Light 6 is a navigational light in Kennebunkport, Maine. It is at the south, seaward, end of the east breakwater at the entrance to Kennebunkport and the Kennebunk River.

It is probably on the same site as the Kennebunk Pier Light which is mentioned in a Report of Secretary of the Treasury for 1857 as one of "Lights considered unnecessary and recommended to be discontinued".[3] It is described on several web sites without any references as having been an eleven foot white tower with a focal height of 22 feet (7m) and a fixed red light visible for eight nautical miles. It is said to have been at "the extremity of the north pier". [2]

References

  1. ^ United States Coast Guard (2009). Light List, Volume I, Atlantic Coast, St. Croix River, Maine to Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. p. 67. 
  2. ^ a b "Kennebunk Pier Light". Lighthouse Depot. 2009-08-11. http://www.lighthousedepot.com/lite_explorer.asp?action=display_details&LighthouseID=3161. 
  3. ^ United States Dept of the Treasury (1857). Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of Financings for the year ended June 30, 1857. p. 257.