Manitowoc Breakwater Light

Manitowoc Breakwater Light

Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse
Location	Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°05′33.918″N87°38′36.91″W / 44.09275500°N 87.6435861°W / 44.09275500; -87.6435861 [1]
Tower
Constructed	1918
Foundation	Pier
Construction	Steel
Automated	1971
Height	40 feet (12 m)
Shape	Cylindrical on square fog signaling building
Light
First lit	1918
Focal height	16 m (52 ft)
Lens	Fourth order Fresnel lens
Range	13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) [1]
Characteristic	White, Isophase, 6 sec [1]

The Manitowoc Breakwater Light is a Lake Michigan lighthouse located near Manitowoc in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, at the end of the north pier defining Manitowoc's harbor. ^[2]

It is not to be confused with the smaller and complementary south pier navigational beacon, which was unmoored and swept out into the lake on January 7, 2019, during a period of heavy waves and lakeshore flooding from gusty winds. ^{[3] [4]}

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References

1. Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.
2. "Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse". Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
3. Zarling, Patti (7 January 2019). "Manitowoc South Pier beacon swept away near lighthouse in high waves on Lake Michigan". Herald Times Reporter . Retrieved 7 January 2019.
4. "U.S. Lighthouse in Lake Michigan washed away by large waves". ABC News. January 8, 2019. Archived from the original (Videos) on January 8, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2019.

Further reading

• Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
• Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN   0-932212-98-0.
• Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN   0-923568-47-6; ISBN   978-0-923568-47-4.
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN   1-55046-399-3.

External links

• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin Archived 2006-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.
• Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard.
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. WI-111, " Manitowoc Breakwater Light Station, North breakwater at mouth of the Manitowoc River, Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, WI ", 19 photos, 1 data page, 5 photo caption pages