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Fenwick Island
State: DE
Year established: 1859
Latitude: 38 deg 27
min 5 sec N
Longitude: 75 deg 3
min 16 sec W
Height above sea level: 83 feet Original construction:
present 84-foot white conical brick tower
Status:
automated in 1940; deactivated 1978 - 1982; private aid to navigation & museum
Light characteristic:
Oc W 13 seconds (flashing white for 7.5 seconds, eclipsed for 5.5 seconds), visible for 8 nautical miles
Notes:
owned by State of DE leased to Friends of Fenwick Island Lighthouse
More information:
 http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/fenwick.htm
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHDE.html
http://www.beachbum.homestead.com/FenwickIsland.html
U.S. Department of Homeland Security / United States Coast Guard, Light List, Volume 2 Atlantic Coast, Shrewsbury River, New Jersey to
Little River, South Carolina, (Washington, DC: GPO, 2004), p. 3
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