Boston (Massachusetts)
Historical Light List Characteristics
1839 | Fl W 210s. W22. | USLHE Light List (US): 33 |
1849 | Fl W 210s. W25. | USLHE Light List (US): 36 |
1858 | Fl W 90s. W16. | LHB Light List (US): 64 |
1860 | Fl W 30s. W16. | LHB Light List (US): 56 |
1865-1866 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 56 | |
1868 | ||
1870 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 59 | |
1878-1879 | Fl W 30s. W17. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 76 |
1886 | Fl W 30s. W161/2. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 77 |
1888 | Fl W 30s. W151/4. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 79 |
1893 | Fl W 30s. W153/4. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 87 |
1898 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 104 | |
1899 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 106 | |
1905 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 125 | |
1908 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 131 | |
1915 | Fl W 30s. W16. fl 8. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 160 |
1917 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 168 | |
1920 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 172 | |
1927 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 168 | |
1931 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 171 | |
1935 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 184 | |
1940 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 203 | |
1943 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 267 | |
1945-1947 | ||
1950-1952 | Fl W 30s. W16. fl 7. | |
1953-1955 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 42 | |
1957 | ||
1959-1960 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 42 | |
1961 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 42 | |
1963-1965 | Fl W 10s. W16. fl 0.7. | |
1966 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 43 | |
1969-1972 | Fl W 10s. W16. | |
1973-1979 | Fl W 10s. W27. | |
1982 | ||
1987 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 380 | |
1990-1992 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 385 | |
1993-1996 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 425 | |
2004 |
Historical Light List Optics and Structures
1839 | 14 Lamps / 16" Refl. | 60 | 82 | N/A | USLHE Light List (US): 33 |
1849 | 14 Lamps / 21" Refl. | 90 | USLHE Light List (US): 36 | ||
1858 | 691/2 | 871/2 | Rough stone circular tower; lantern straw color. | LHB Light List (US): 64 | |
1860 | 2nd | 80 | 98 | LHB Light List (US): 56 | |
1865-1866 | Rough stone circular tower; lantern black. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 56 | |||
1868 | |||||
1870 | 111 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 59 | |||
1878-1879 | Rough stone circular tower, whitewashed; lantern, black. Covered way, 89 feet long, to one and a half story brown dwelling. Two small brown buildings, and one of brick, containing fog-signal machines, stand on the south and southwest sides of the tower. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 76 | |||
1886 | White circular tower, with black lantern. Brown dwelling connected to tower by covered way, 80 feet long. Red-roofed white dwelling to west-ward. Three brown fog-signal buildings and one of brick around the tower to eastward, southward, and south-westward. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 77 | |||
1888 | White circular tower, with black lantern. White dwelling connected to tower by covered way, 80 feet long. White dwelling to westward. Two white fog-signal buildings to southward and southeastward of and very close to tower, and a small white building S.W. by W. of tower. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 79 | |||
1893 | 801/2 | 102 | Conical white tower; lantern, black. White dwelling connected to tower by covered way, 80 feet long, large rain sheds, brick fog-signal house with frame annex, and square white building grouped closely about tower. Another white dwelling and small white structure to westward of group. Small brick oil house to southward of westerly dwelling. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 87 | |
1898 | Conical white tower; lantern, black. White dwelling connected to tower by covered way, 80 feet long, large rain sheds, brick fog-signal house with frame annex, and square white building grouped closely about tower. Another white dwelling and small white structure to westward of group. Small white oil house to southward of westerly dwelling. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 104 | |||
1899 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 106 | ||||
1905 | White conical tower; lantern, black. White dwelling, large rain sheds, white, brick fog-signal house with frame annex, and square white building grouped closely about tower. Another white dwelling and small white structure to westward of group. Small white oil house to southward of westerly dwelling. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 125 | |||
1908 | White conical tower; black lantern; white dwelling, large rain sheds, white, brick fog-signal house with frame annex, and square white building grouped closely about tower; another white dwelling and small white structure to W'd of group; small white oil house to S'd of W'ly dwelling. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 131 | |||
1915 | N/A | 89 | White; conical tower. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 160 | |
1917 | White conical tower. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 168 | |||
1920 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 172 | ||||
1927 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 168 | ||||
1931 | 2 iov | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 171 | |||
1935 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 184 | ||||
1940 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 203 | ||||
1943 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 267 | ||||
1945-1947 | |||||
1950-1952 | 2 e | ||||
1953-1955 | N/A | USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 42 | |||
1957 | |||||
1959-1960 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 42 | ||||
1961 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 42 | ||||
1963-1965 | |||||
1966 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 43 | ||||
1969-1979 | |||||
1982 | |||||
1987 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 380 | ||||
1990-1992 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 385 | ||||
1993-1996 | On white conical tower. | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 425 | |||
2004 |
Historical Light List Audible Fog Signals
1858 | Fog-bell | None | LHB Light List (US): 64 |
1860 | LHB Light List (US): 56 | ||
1865-1866 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 56 | ||
1868 | |||
1870 | A bell | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 59 | |
1878-1879 | A 1st-class Daboll's air-trumpet, in duplicate, giving blasts of 7 seconds, followed by intervals of 43 seconds. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 76 | |
1886 | 10-inch steam-whistle; blasts 5 sec., alternate intervals of 10 and 40 sec. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 77 | |
1888 | 1st-class steam-siren; blasts 5 sec., alternate intervals of 10 and 40 sec. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 79 | |
1893 | 1st-class steam-siren; blasts 5 sec., alternate silent intervals of 10 and 40 sec. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 87 | |
1898 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 104 | ||
1899 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 106 | ||
1905 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 125 | ||
1908 | 1st-class steam-siren; blasts 5 sec., silent intervals, alternately, of 10 and 40 sec. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 131 | |
1915 | 1st-cl. steam-siren; gp. 2 blasts every 60 sec.: 1st blast 5 sec., silent 10 sec., 2d blast 5 sec., silent 40 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 160 | |
1917 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 168 | ||
1920 | 1st-cl. air siren; gp. 2 blasts every 60 sec.: 1st blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., 2d blast 3 sec., silent 51 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 172 | |
1927 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 168 | ||
1931 | SIREN, 1st-cl. air; gp. 2 blasts every 60 sec.: blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., blast 3 sec., silent 51 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 171 | |
1935 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 184 | ||
1940 | SIREN, 1st-cl. air; group of 2 blasts every 60 sec.: blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., blast 3 sec., silent 51 sec. | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 203 | |
1943 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 267 | ||
1945-1947 | |||
1950 | |||
1951-1952 | SIREN, 1st-cl. air; group of 2 blasts every 60 sec.; blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., blast 3 sec., silent 51 sec. | ||
1953-1955 | SIREN: gp of 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 42 | |
1957 | |||
1959-1960 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 42 | ||
1961 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 42 | ||
1963-1965 | HORN, diaphragm; gp of 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | ||
1966 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 43 | ||
1969-1972 | HORN, diaphragm; 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | ||
1973-1975 | HORN, 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | ||
1976 | HORN: 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | ||
1977-1979 | HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3sbl). | ||
1982 | HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl). | ||
1987 | HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl). | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 380 | |
1990-1992 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 385 | ||
1993-1996 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 425 | ||
2004 | HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl). |
1716 - Present (Exact location for current 1783 lighthouse which was built at the original location.) |