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Brenton
Beef Lightship LV-102/WAL 525
Location: Entrance
to East Passage of Narragansett Bay
1935 - 1942 --Lat 41
25 54 N - Long 72 22 36 W
1942 - 1962 --Lat
41 25 36 N - Long 72 22 36
W
Year Built: 1916
Design: Self propelled; steel whaleback hull;
single large diameter -tubular
lantern mast forward; steel pilothouse/bridge at -foot
of mast; small jigger mast aft
Length: 119'10" (loa); Beam:
25'; Draft: 11'4";
Tonnage: 360 displacement
Illuminating Apparatus:
1935 - 1955 Fifth Order lens
mounted in
large cylindrical lantern; 1955 - 1962 Duplex 375 mm lens lantern
Propulsion: One 200 HP Mietz and Weiss 2 cycle direct
reversing kerosene engine driving 4 bladed
propeller; speed 8 knots
Years on Station:
1935 - 1962
Status: Decommissioned at Boston October 25,
1963.
Light Characteristic:
1935 - 1962 Occulting White every 4 seconds 3
seconds flash, 1 second eclipse
Range: 1935 -1946 13 miles
1946 -1962 12 miles
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