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Ram Island
State: ME
Year established: 1883
Latitude: 43 deg 48
min 14 sec N
Longitude: 69 deg 35
min 57 sec W
Height above sea level: 35 feet Original construction:
present 35-foot brick tower on granite base about 200 feet offshore; connected to island by wooden bridge
Status:
Automated in 1965; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
Alternating 6 seconds red and 6 seconds dark visible for 9 nautical miles; fog signal 1 blast every 30 seconds
More information:
 http://lighthouse.cc/ramisland/index.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHME.html
Office of the Light House Board, List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895), pp. 24-25
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