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Brenton
Reef Offshore Light station
Location: Entrance
to West Passage of Narragansett Bay
 1962 - 1992  Lat 41
25 36 N - Long 72 23 24 W
Year Built: 1962
Design: A deckhouse supported by four cross-braced
steel legs  extending
25 feet into bedrock beneath the ocean floor.
Illuminating Apparatus:
A 6 Foot tower rising from
the deck,  supports
a white 1,200,000 candlepower
beacon.
Height 87 feet
Years on Station
1962 - 1992
Status: Dismantled in 1992
Light Characteristic:
Group flashing (2) White every 10  seconds
0.2 seconds flash, 3.0 seconds eclipse
0.2
seconds flash, 6.6 seconds eclipse
Range: 25 miles (1988)
 16 miles (1989)
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