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The Brandywine Shoal Light is a lighthouse on the north side of the ship channel in Delaware Bay on the east coast of the United States, west of Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It was the site of the first screw-pile lighthouse in the United States.
Brandywine Shoal Light: Delaware Bay (Lower) 1828 (Former) 1914 (Current) 1974 ... Ship John Shoal Light: Delaware Bay (Upper) 1877 1973 Active VRB-25 50 ...
Brandywine Shoal Light Station. January 8, 2007 : In lower Delaware Bay, about 8.8 mi. WNW of Cape May Point Cape May Point: Built 1828 (1st light) Built 1850 (2nd ...
The Frying Pan Shoals Light-Vessel first patrolled the area in 1854. It was removed in the Civil War, replaced in 1865 and replaced again in 1966 by a "Texas Tower," better known as Frying Pan ...
Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse is one of 10 designated a National Historic Landmark. Unlike the typical lighthouse, this one is hexagonal, relatively squat, and elevated above the water ...
This light, the last offshore lighthouse to be erected in Delaware Bay, marks one of a series of shoals along the eastern side of the shipping channel, between the Elbow of Cross Ledge Light and the Brandywine Shoal Light. The name of the shoal commemorates Nehemiah Maull, a river pilot who was drowned in 1780 when the ship in which he intended ...
The first screwpile lighthouse type built in the United States was at Brandywine Shoal, Delaware Bay, an area served by a lightship since 1823 and an ordinary straightpile lighthouse which stood briefly there in 1828 but was destroyed by ice. Major Hartman Bache, a distinguished engineer of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, began work ...
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