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Hawaii Light Stations(745 total words in this text)(3708 Reads)  KALAELOA/OAHU ISLAND Station Established: 1888 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1933 Operational? YES Automated? YES 1964 Deactivated: n/a Foundation Materials: MASONRY Construction Materials: CONCRETE Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL W/OUT LANTERN Markings/Pattern: WHITE Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1888 PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FIRST BARBER'S POINT LIGHT TOWER, CIRCA 1915 PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SECOND BARBER'S POINT LIGHT TOWER, CIRCA 1934 CAPE KUMUKAHI LIGHT EASTERNMOST POINT HAWAII ISLAND Station Established: 1929 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1934 Operational? YES Automated? YES 1960 Deactivated: Foundation Materials: CONCRETE Construction Materials: STEEL Tower Shape: SKELETAL PYRAMIDAL Markings/Pattern: WHITE Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: 375 MM 1929 DIAMOND HEAD LIGHT DIAMOND HEAD/OAHU ISLAND Station Established: 1899 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1918 Operational? YES Automated? YES 1924 Deactivated: n/a Foundation Materials: MASONRY Construction Materials: CONCRETE Tower Shape: SQUARE Markings/Pattern: WHITE WITH RED ROOF Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: THIRD ORDER, FRESNEL 1899 HONOLULU LIGHT KAILUA POINT KILAUEA POINT LIGHT NORTH OF KILAUEA/KAUAI ISLAND Station Established: 1913 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1913 Operational? NO Automated? YES 1976 Deactivated: 1976 Foundation Materials: CONCRETE Construction Materials: CONCRETE Tower Shape: CONICAL Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/RED ROOF ON LANTERN Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: SECOND ORDER FRESNEL 1913 GENERAL INFORMATION: This important landfall light, providing a leading mark for ships bound to Honolulu from the Orient, was built in 1913. The tower is of reinforced concrete, and is but 52 feet high, but it stands on a cliff which elevates the light to 216 feet above the water. The moving parts of the lens weigh 4 tons, and this mass turns on a mercury float, making a complete revolution every 20 seconds and giving each 10 seconds a double flash of 1,000,000 candlepower. The lens was built in France and cost about $12,000. Kilauea Lighthouse is also a radio-beacon station providing radio signals for the guidance of ships. This light was the first landfall made in the first flight by aeroplane from the Pacific coast of the United States to the Hawaiian Islands, in 1927, it being picked up from the air at a distance of 90 miles. LAC O HA LAAU POINT LIGHT MAKAPUU POINT LIGHT WAIMANALO/OAHU ISLAND Station Established: 1909 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1909 Operational? YES Automated? YES 1974 Deactivated: n/a Foundation Materials: MASONRY Construction Materials: CONCRETE Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: HYPER-RADIANT 1909 GENERAL INFORMATION: All the commerce from the west coast of North America bound to Honolulu passes Makapuu Lighthouse. The largest lens in a lighthouse of the United States known as a hyper-radiant lens, is in use at this lighthouse. The inside diameter is 8?2 feet, sufficient for several men to stand within. Although the tower is only 46 feet high the light is 420 feet above the sea. The 115,000 candlepower light can be seen for 28 miles. The effectiveness of this lighthouse has been greatly increased in recent years through the establishment of a radiobeacon at the station. The radio signals may be heard two hundred and more miles at sea. MOLOKAI (KALAUPAPA) LIGHT KALAUPAPA PENINSULA/NORTH SHORE Station Established: 1909 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1909 Operational? YES Automated? YES 1966 Deactivated: n/a Foundation Materials: MASONRY Construction Materials: CONCRETE Tower Shape: OCTAGONAL Markings/Pattern: WHITE W/RED LANTERN Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: SECOND ORDER BIVALVE, FRESNEL 1909 NAWILIWILI HARBOR LIGHT NININI POINT/KAUAI ISLAND Station Established: 1906 Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1933 Operational? YES Automated? YES 1953 Deactivated: n/a Foundation Materials: MASONRY Construction Materials: CONCRETE Tower Shape: CYLINDRICAL Markings/Pattern: BUFF Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE Original Lens: FIRST ORDER BIVALVE, FRESNEL PAUWELA POINT LIGHT PEPEEKEO POINT LIGHT |
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
