 Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse | |
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| Location | Manitowoc, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates | 44°05′33.918″N 87°38′36.91″W / 44.09275500°N 87.6435861°W[1] |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1918 |
| Foundation | Pier |
| Construction | Steel |
| Automated | 1971 |
| Height | 40 feet (12 m) |
| Shape | Cylindrical on square fog signaling building |
| Light | |
| First lit | 1918 |
| Focal height | 16 m (52 ft)  |
| Lens | Fourth order Fresnel lens |
| Range | 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi)[1] |
| Characteristic | White, Isophase, 6 sec[1] |
The Manitowoc Breakwater Light is a Lake Michigan lighthouse located near Manitowoc in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, at the end of the north pier defining Manitowoc's harbor.[2]
It is not to be confused with the smaller and complementary south pier navigational beacon, which was unmoored and swept out into the lake on January 7, 2019, during a period of heavy waves and lakeshore flooding from gusty winds.[3][4]
- ^ a b c Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes (PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2014.
- ^ "Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse". Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Zarling, Patti (7 January 2019). "Manitowoc South Pier beacon swept away near lighthouse in high waves on Lake Michigan". Herald Times Reporter. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "U.S. Lighthouse in Lake Michigan washed away by large waves". ABC News. January 8, 2019. Archived from the original (Videos) on January 8, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2019.