Cape Ann (Massachusetts)
Historical Light List Characteristics
1839 | F W. W27. | USLHE Light List (US): 34 |
1849 | F W. W21. | USLHE Light List (US): 37 |
1858 | F W. W16. | LHB Light List (US): 56 |
1860 | LHB Light List (US): 49 | |
1865-1866 | F W. W20. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 49 |
1868 | ||
1870 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 52 | |
1878-1879 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 65 | |
1886 | F W. W19. | |
1888 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 67 | |
1893 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 75 | |
1898 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 86 | |
1899 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 88 | |
1905 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 91 | |
1908 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 94 | |
1915 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 108 | |
1917 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 115 | |
1920 | ||
1927 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 120 | |
1931 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 122 | |
1935 | Fl(5) W 20s. W19. (fl 2, ec 1) x 4, fl 2, ec 6. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 130 |
1940 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 147 | |
1943 | Fl(5) W 20s. W19. (fl 0.5, ec 2.5) x 4, fl 0.5, ec 7.5. | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 196 |
1945 | ||
1946-1947 | Oc(5) W 20s. W19. (lt 2, ec 1) x 4, lt 2, ec 6. | |
1950-1952 | ||
1953-1955 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 28 | |
1957 | ||
1959-1960 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 26 | |
1961 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 26 | |
1963-1965 | ||
1966 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 27 | |
1969-1979 | ||
1982 | Fl R 5s. R19. | |
1987 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 270 | |
1990-1992 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 275 | |
1993-1996 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 295 | |
2004 | Fl R 5s. R17. |
Historical Light List Optics and Structures
1839 | 15 Lamps / 15" Refl. | 37 | 90 | N/A | USLHE Light List (US): 34 |
1849 | 11 Lamps / 21" Refl. | USLHE Light List (US): 37 | |||
1858 | 45 | 98 | Stone tower. The towers are 895 feet apart, ranging N. by E. 3/4 E. and S. by W. 3/4 W. | LHB Light List (US): 56 | |
1860 | LHB Light List (US): 49 | ||||
1865-1866 | 1st | 1121/2 | 1651/2 | Stone tower, grey color; workrooms and covered walks painted stone color. North keeper's house, white frame; south brick. Lantern and parapet railings of tower painted red. The towers are 895 feet apart, ranging N. by E. 3/4 E. and S. by W. 3/4 W. [Shared structures between towers.] | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 49 |
1868 | |||||
1870 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 52 | ||||
1878-1879 | Stone tower, gray color. Work-rooms and covered walks painted stone color. A one and a half story house, painted drab, stands west of the brick house. North keeper's house, white frame; south, brick; lantern painted black. The towers are 895 feet apart, ranging N. by E. 3/4 E. and S. by W. 3/4 W. [Shared structures between towers.] | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 65 | |||
1886 | Gray-stone tower, 895 feet apart [from other tower], ranging N. by E. 3/4 E. and S. by W. 3/4 W. Work-rooms, stone-color; covered walks and northern dwelling, white; southern, brick-color ; lantern, black. A drab house stands W. of the brick dwelling. Fog-signal house, white. [Shared structures between towers.] | ||||
1888 | Gray-stone tower, 895 feet apart [from other tower], ranging N. by E. 3/4 E. and S. by W. 3/4 W. Work-rooms, stone-color; covered walks and northern dwelling, white; one southern dwelling brick-color and one white; lantern, black. A drab house stands W. of the brick dwelling. Brick fog-signal house nearly easterly shore of island. [Shared structures between towers.] | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 67 | |||
1893 | Gray-stone tower [895 feet S. by W. 3/4 W. from north tower]. Workrooms, stone-color; covered walks and northern dwelling, white; one southern dwelling, brick-color and one white. A drab house stands W. of the brick dwelling. Brick fog-signal house nearly easterly shore of island, and white oil house about midway between towers. [Shared structures between towers.] | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 75 | |||
1898 | Gray-stone tower [895 feet S. by W. 3/4 W. from north tower]; lantern, black. Workrooms, stone-color; covered walks and northern dwelling, white; one southern dwelling, red brick and one white. A drab house stands W. of the brick dwelling. Brick fog-signal house nearly easterly shore of island, and red-brick oil house about midway between towers. [Shared structures between towers.] | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 86 | |||
1899 | Gray-stone tower (895 feet S. by W. 3/4 W. from north tower); lantern, black. Workrooms, stone-color; covered walks and northern dwelling, white; one southern dwelling, red brick and one white. A drab house stands W. of the brick dwelling. Brick fog-signal house nearly easterly shore of island, and white oil house about midway between towers. (Shared structures between towers.) | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 88 | |||
1905 | Gray-stone tower [895 feet S. by W. 3/4 W. from north tower]; lantern, black. Workrooms, stone-color; covered walks and northern dwelling, white; one southerly dwelling, light drab, and one white. Brick fog-signal house near easterly shore of island, and white oil house about midway between towers. Two white signal masts, with small buildings, on southerly end of island. [Shared structures between towers.] | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 91 | |||
1908 | Gray-stone tower [895 feet 199° 45' (S by W 3/4 W) from north tower]; black lantern; workrooms, stone-color; covered walks and N'ly dwelling, white; one S'ly dwelling, light drab, and one white; brick fog-signal house near E'ly shore of island, and white oilhouse about midway between towers. [Shared structures between towers.] | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 94 | |||
1915 | N/A | 124 | 166 | Gray-stone tower [298 yards 1861/4° from north tower]. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 108 |
1917 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 115 | ||||
1920 | |||||
1927 | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 120 | ||||
1931 | 1 iov | Gray stone tower [298 yards 1861/4° from north tower]. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 122 | ||
1935 | 1 ei | Gray stone tower. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 130 | ||
1940 | 1 e | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 147 | |||
1943 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 196 | ||||
1945-1947 | |||||
1950-1952 | |||||
1953-1955 | N/A | USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 28 | |||
1957 | |||||
1959-1960 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 26 | ||||
1961 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 26 | ||||
1963-1965 | |||||
1966 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 27 | ||||
1969-1979 | |||||
1982 | |||||
1987 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 270 | ||||
1990-1992 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 275 | ||||
1993-1996 | On gray stone tower. | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 295 | |||
2004 |
Historical Light List Audible Fog Signals
1858 | None | None | LHB Light List (US): 56 |
1860 | LHB Light List (US): 49 | ||
1865-1866 | Fog-signal, a whistle [shared] sounded by a caloric engine, sounded three times in every minute, and interval between each blast fourteen seconds. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 49 | |
1868 | Fog-signal, a whistle [shared] sounded by a caloric engine once in every minute, and interval between the blasts fifty-six seconds. | ||
1870 | A trumpet [shared] 15 feet in length, operated by a 32-inch hot-air engine, giving blasts of 7 seconds duration, at intervals of 43 seconds. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 52 | |
1878 | A 10-inch steam-whistle [shared], in duplicate, giving each minute a blast of 8 and a blast of 4 seconds, with alternate intervals of 4 and 44 seconds. | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 65 | |
1879 | A trumpet [shared] 15 feet in length, operated by a 32-inch hot-air engine, giving blasts of 7 seconds duration, at intervals of 43 seconds. | ||
1886 | 10-inch steam-whistle [shared]; blasts of 8 and 4 sec., with alternate intervals of 4 and 44 sec. | ||
1888 | LHB Light List (All Coasts): 67 | ||
1893 | 10-inch steam-whistle [shared]; blasts of 8 and 4 sec., alternate silent intervals of 4 and 44 sec. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 75 | |
1898 | 10-inch steam whistle [shared]; alternate blasts of 8 and 4 sec.; alternate silent intervals of 4 and 44 sec. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 86 | |
1899 | 10-inch steam whistle (shared); alternate blasts of 8 and 4 sec.; alternate silent intervals of 4 and 44 sec. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 88 | |
1905 | 10-inch steam whistle [shared]; alternate blasts of 8 and 4 sec.; alternate silent intervals of 4 and 44 sec. | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 91 | |
1908 | LHB Light List (Atlantic): 94 | ||
1915 | 10-inch steam whistle [shared]; gp. 2 unequal blasts every 60 sec.: 1st blast 8 sec., silent 4 sec., 2d blast 4 sec., silent 44 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 108 | |
1917 | Air diaphone [shared]; gp. 3 blasts every 60 sec.: 1st blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., 2d blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., 3d blast 3 sec., silent 45 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 115 | |
1920 | Air diaphone [shared]; gp. 3 blasts every 60 sec.: blasts each 3 sec. duration, silent 45 sec. | ||
1927 | Air diaphone [shared]; gp. 3 blasts every 60 sec.: 1st blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., 2d blast 3 sec., silent 3 sec., 3d blast 3 sec., silent 45 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 120 | |
1931 | DIAPHONE, air [shared]; gp. 3 blasts every 60 sec.: 3 blasts 3 sec. each, 2 silences 3 sec. each, 1 silence 45 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 122 | |
1935 | DIAPHONE, air; gp. 3 blasts every 60 sec.: 3 blasts 3 sec. each, 2 silences 3 sec. each, 1 silence 45 sec. | USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 130 | |
1940 | DIAPHONE, air; group of 3 blasts every 60 sec.: 3 blasts 3 sec. each, 2 silences 3 sec. each, 1 silence 45 sec. | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 147 | |
1943 | USCG Light List (Atlantic): 196 | ||
1945-1947 | |||
1950-1951 | |||
1952 | DIAPHONE, air; group of 3 blasts every 60 sec.; 3 blasts 3 sec. each, 2 silences 3 sec. each, 1 silence 45 sec. | ||
1953-1955 | DIAPHONE: gp of 3 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-45ssi). | USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 28 | |
1957 | |||
1959-1960 | USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 26 | ||
1961 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 26 | ||
1963-1964 | |||
1965 | HORN, diaphragm; gp of 3 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-45ssi). | ||
1966 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 27 | ||
1969-1970 | HORN, diaphragm; 3 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-45ssi). | ||
1971-1972 | HORN, diaphragm; 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | ||
1973-1975 | HORN, 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | ||
1976-1979 | HORN: 2 blasts ev 60s (3sbl-3ssi-3sbl-51ssi). | ||
1982 | HORN: 2 blasts ev 60s (3s bl-3s si-3s bl-51s si). | ||
1987 | HORN: 2 blasts ev 60s (3s bl-3s si-3s bl-51s si). | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 270 | |
1990-1992 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 275 | ||
1993-1996 | USCG Light List - Vol. I: 295 | ||
2004 | HORN: 2 blasts ev 60s (3s bl-3s si-3s bl-51s si). |
1771 - Present (Rebuilt 1861 lighthouse assumed to be at the same location as the original light.) |