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Whale Rock
State: RI
Year established: 1882
Latitude: 41 deg 26
min 40 sec N
Longitude: 71 deg 25
min 25 sec W
Original construction:
White, conical tower on red, cylindrical pier; black lantern (1920 LL)
Status:
destroyed by hurricane of 1938
More information:
 http://lighthouse.cc/whalerock/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHRI.html
http://www.lighthousedepot.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=1375
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 71-74
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