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During World War Two, were lighthouses still lit?
that is a very good question. they may have been but only at some specific times like when the weather was really bad. the blackouts that occured during the 1940s because of the war going on may have had a impact on when they used the lighthouses. ships also had radar or the begginning of radar so that also had a impact of the usefulness of the lighthouse. the coast gaurd at this time took control of the lighthouses at this time.
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Wolf Trap Light
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Wolf Trap Light
Undated photograph of Wolf Trap Light, Virginia (USCG)
Location:
off west shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia northwest of the mouth of the York River
CoordinatesWGS-84 (GPS)
3723?25?N 7611?23?W? / ?37.3904 76.1897? / 37.3904; -76.1897 (unverified)
Year first lit:
1870 (first light)1894 (current light)
Automated:
1971
Foundation:
pneumatic wooden caisson
Construction:
cast iron/Brick
Towershape:
Octagonal
Height:
52 ft
Originallens:
fourth order Fresnel lens
Currentlens:
Vega VRB-25 solar-powered beacon
Range:
14 miles
Characteristic:
15 sec Flashing white
Wolf Trap Light is a caisson lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, about seven and a half miles northeast of New Point Comfort Light. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
History
Wolf Trap Shoal juts into the bay from Winter Harbor, a point a few miles north of Mobjack Bay and the York River. It got its name from the 1691 grounding of the HMS Wolfe, a British naval vessel engaged in enforcing the Navigation Act and in combatting piracy. In 1821 a lightship was stationed at this spot, and after refurbishment in 1854, the original ship was destroyed by Confederate raiders in 1861 during the Civil War. Two years later a replacement ship was put on station.
In 1870 a screwpile lighthouse was constructed on a hexagonal foundation, the house being prefabricated at the station at Lazzaretto Point in Baltimore. This light survived until 1893, when ice tore the house from its foundation. The keeper was able to escape, but the house was found floating far to the south at Thimble Shoals, where the lantern and lens were recovered from it.
A lighthouse tender was put on station to serve as a temporary lightship and a request was put to Congress to appropriate funds for a caisson structure. Construction began the following year; a wooden caisson was used, topped by a cylinder of cast iron plates. The house itself was built of brick, standing two stories with the lantern on its roof. Unlike the Maryland examples, the roof is flat. Quantities of rip-rap were dumped around the base of the light to resist pressure from the ice.
Complaints about the visibility of the original fixed light led to a change to a flashing characteristic in 1895. Automation came in 1971. A 300mm acrylic lens was installed in 1984, to be replaced with the current beacon in 1996. A set of black plywood blinds is installed in the lantern to block stray reflections from the panes.
Wolf Trap Light was offered to non-profit and historical organizations in 2004 under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act. As no applications were received, it was put up for auction in 2005. Nick Korstad, of Seattle, Washington, purchased the station, and was unable to obtain financing for his plan to convert the light into a bed and breakfast, and after an unsuccessful attempt to auction the light on E-bay, it was sold privately again.
References
Virginia Light Stations, from the United States Coast Guard
Wolf Trap Light Station's National Register of Historic Places Nomination
Wolf Trap Lighthouse, Virginia from LighthouseFriends.com
de Gast, Robert (1973). The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 38-41.
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