Ship Island Light
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Ship Island Light was a lighthouse in Mississippi near Gulfport.
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Location | Ship Island west of Fort Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 30.2127°N 88.9661°W / 30.2127; -88.9661 |
Tower | |
Constructed | 1853 (first tower) 1886 (second tower)[1] |
Construction | brick (first tower) wood frame (second tower)[1] |
Automated | 1950[1] |
Height | 30 feet (9.1 m)[1] |
Shape | Frustum of a cone (first tower) pyramidal (second tower)[1] |
Markings | White with black lantern[1] |
Light | |
First lit | 1971 |
Deactivated | 1964[1] |
Focal height | 76 feet (23 m)[1] |
Lens | Fourth-order Fresnel lens[1] |
Characteristic | varied |
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