Rhode Island Lighthouses

Entrance to East Passage of Narragansett Bay

1853 - 1856 l Lat 41 25 00 N - Long 71 21 30 W

1852

Wood-white oak and yellow pine; copper and iron fastened; 2 mast (foremast higher) daymarks

Painted straw color, with Ledyard in black letters on each quarter, showing two plain white lights, one forty-seven feet above the sea - the other thirty-seven - the higher light forward.

Length: 91' (lbp); Beam: 22'; Draft: 9'; Tonnage: 159 gross

Single lantern with 8 lard oil lamps
(source: Lightships of the United States Government By Willard Flint)

Two Lanterns
(source: Notice to Mariners in March 5, 1853 in The Tri-Weekly Commercial
Willmington, North Carolina)

Sail-sloop rig

1853 - 1856

Sold at auction in 1872

Fixed White

12.5 miles