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Brandywine Shoal Light
Brandywine Shoals Light (undated USCG photo)
Map
Locationlower Delaware Bay
Coordinates38°59′11″N 75°06′49″W / 38.9864°N 75.1135°W / 38.9864; -75.1135
Tower
Constructed1828 (1st light)
1850 (2nd light)
1914 (3rd light)
Foundationwood piles (1st light)
screw-pile (2nd light)
cast iron/concrete caisson (3rd light)
Constructioncast iron (2nd light)
reinforced concrete (3rd light)
Automated1974
Height14 m (46 ft) Edit this on Wikidata
Shapeconical/cylindrical house with lantern on top (2nd and 3rd lights)
HeritageNational Register of Historic Places listed place Edit this on Wikidata
Light
First lit1914 Edit this on Wikidata
Focal height54 feet (16 m) (2nd light)
60 feet (18 m) (3rd light)
Lensthird order Fresnel lens
Range13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi)
Characteristic10s flash
Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.06000943
NJRHP No.988[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 8, 2007
Designated NJRHPAugust 2, 2006

The Brandywine Shoal Light is a lighthouse on the north side of the ship channel in Delaware Bay on the east coast of the United States, west of Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It was the site of the first screw-pile lighthouse in the United States.

  1. ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Cape May County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. March 1, 2011. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 28, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.

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