Table Bluff Light
Location | Table Buff California United States |
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Coordinates | 40°41′45.02″N 124°16′26.16″W / 40.6958389°N 124.2739333°W |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1892 |
Construction | wooden tower |
Automated | 1953 |
Height | 35 ft (11 m) |
Shape | square tower attached to dwelling |
Markings | white tower, black lantern and trim |
Operator | Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District[1][2] |
Light | |
Deactivated | 1971 |
Focal height | 14 m (46 ft) |
Lens | Fourth order Fresnel lens (on display at the Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum) |
Table Bluff Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, United States, which was located on Table Bluff just south of Humboldt Bay. Built to guide vessels away from the notoriously dangerous and rough coastline and to let them know proximity of the nearby bay and entrance, the lighthouse was one of the first to be automated. The lighthouse tower portion is now located at the Woodley Island Marina within the City of Eureka.
History
Table Bluff Lighthouse was built in 1892. A fixed, fourth-order
The Humboldt Harbor Light located on the north spit of the Humboldt Bay Bar entrance had for many years been criticized as being too low. In 1892 the Lighthouse Service constructed a light station on Table Bluff, a promontory south of Humboldt Bay, but within-view of the bay. The original station consisted of a duplex Victorian quarters, fog-signal building, and a keepers quarters with light tower attached. The quarters were redwood Italianette-stick Victorian, and the keepers quarters/ light tower were almost exactly the same as
In 1953 the rotating 4th order lens was removed and a fixed 3½ order lens installed. The 4th order optic was shipped to the Point Loma Light in San Diego which is operated as a museum by the National Park Service. The
The lighthouse tower was cut in two and moved to Woodley Island Marina in Eureka (40°48′29″N 124°09′55″W / 40.808140°N 124.165411°W) in 1987. The lens in it now is not the original.
See also
References
- ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Northern California". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ California Historic Light Station Information & Photography United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 18 June 2016
- ISBN 9780870622014. 978-0870622014.
- "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: California". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01.