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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Other New Jersey lightships.........
Until 1969, the "BARNEGAT" lightship was stationed 8 miles east of the Barnegat Inlet; this ship, in actuality, proved more even more efficient than the Barnegat lighthouse itself, and had served as an outer beacon.
The "BARNEGAT" was replaced by a lighted buoy in 1969.
From 1882 until its retirement in 1932, the "NORTHEAST END" lightship was stationed 12 miles east of the Hereford Inlet, , marking the northeast end of the Five Fathom Bank Shoal.
The last lightship to be stationed at this location was replaced by a large navigational buoy in 1972.
Until 1962, a lightship was also assigned to the "SCOTLAND" station; this particular lightship marked the spot where the steamer "SCOTLAND" collided with the schooner "KATE DYER", and later sank, in 1866.
This location was a little more than two miles from the Sandy Hook Lighthouse......
(Source: "GUARDING NEW JERSEY'S SHORES: LIGHTHOUSES AND LIFE-SAVING STATIONS", by David Veasey)
"NYO"
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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This brief news item (from 2010) recalls the classic children's book, "THE LITTLE RED LIGHTHOUSE AND THE GREAT GRAY BRIDGE":
Bridge: "Little Brother, where is your light?"
Little Red Lighthouse: "Am I a brother of yours, Bridge? Your light is so bright I thought mine was needed no more."
Bridge: "I call to the airplanes, I flash to the ships of the air. But you are still the Master of the River. Quick, let your light shine again. Each to his own place, Little Brother!"
https://gothamist.com/news/bright-lights-big-bridge-gw-bridges-beacon-turns-75
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 12:26 am Post subject: |
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When it opened in late 1964, the bright lights of the sleek new Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge rendered the diminutive Fort Wadsworth lighthouse obsolete. (at the bottom of the following page is a magnificent panoramic view of the Bridge, with the restored lighthouse in full view)
SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazzano_Narrows_Bridge *
At one time, there was talk of the SIRT crossing the Bridge into Brooklyn, linking up with the BMT's 4th Avenue line, but Robert Moses (not surprisingly) nixed this idea.
Until WW2, the graceful "Sandy Hook Route" steamers of the CRRNJ also sailed up and down the Narrows.
Interestingly, the Fort Wadsworth lighthouse was darkened in 1965, not long after the VZ opened, while "The Little Red Lighthouse", on the other hand, continued to shine until 1948, some 16 years after the George Washington Bridge opened for traffic......
"NYO"
*The white 'necklace' lights are decorative features on the VZ, RFK, Throgs Neck, and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges. Red lights between the white 'necklace' lights provide navigation, as do the four beacon lights (two atop each tower); these particular lights are red, as required by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 12:50 am Post subject: |
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Here's an interesting historical/geographical page (w/photos) regarding "the Narrows"*......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narrows
*(Operating across the Narrows until late 1964 when the VZ Bridge opened, one of the 69th St.-St. George ferryboats was also named "THE NARROWS") |
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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.......in discussing navigation (and navigation aids) in NY Harbor, I would be amiss if I did not mention the Bayonne Bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonne_Bridge
In recent years, the roadway of the 1931-era span was raised, to allow for more generous clearances to the massive and monolithic container ships that pass beneath its roadways each day.
This was, as you might very well expect, a massive undertaking; the Bayonne Bridge now stands alone as being the only "old" span in NY Harbor to be so rebuilt.
Though the Bayonne Bridge opened in the early 1930's, the nearby "BERGEN POINT FERRY" (operated by PSNJ until 1943) continued to operate to Port Richmond until the early 1960's.
Interestingly enough, provisions were built into the original structure to accommodate the installation of streetcar/rapid transit tracks at some future date.
The story of this bridge, as well as its rebuilding, is very interesting, to say the least......
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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Another lighthouse (on the Hudson) that was rendered obsolete by the construction of a new bridge was the Tarrytown light.
When the new (since replaced) Tappan Zee Bridge opened in 1955, the intensity of the Tarrytown lighthouse's beacon was reduced, and, in 1961, was closed down altogether.
The old lighthouse's fog signal was also rendered obsolete by the new foghorn that was installed on the bridge's center span......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrytown_Light
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee_Bridge (links to pages on both the original span and the present bridge) |
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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The Statue of Liberty as a "lighthouse".......
Earlier in this thread, I mentioned that, in her early years, the Statue of Liberty was once under the jurisdiction of the United States Lighthouse Board.
The Board operated an electrical generating plant on the island, and panels were cut into the skin of the torch's flame, to allow the light from the nine lamps installed inside the flame to shine through.
These lamps were not very effective as a harbor beacon; by 1902, the use of Lady Liberty as an aid to navigation ended.
In the 1890's, for a brief time, the diadem (crown) was illuminated by a series of red, white, and blue lamps........
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