Markings / pattern Red, with "BUZZARDS" Opened 1847 Focal height 20 m Construction Steel | Characteristic Fl W 2.5s Range 31,484 m Automated 1980 Material Steel | |
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Location Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Year first constructed 1847 (lightships)
1961 (Texas Tower)
1997 (current structure) Foundation Steel piles filled with concrete Tower shape Tower, on red square on 3 piles with large tube in center Similar Lovells Island Range Li, Dumpling Rocks Light, Spectacle Island Range Li, Broad Sound Channel I, Nantucket Cliff Range Lights | ||
Buzzards Bay Entrance Light is a lighthouse located in open water at the entrance to Buzzards Bay, about four nautical miles west southwest of Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts.
The light has a racon showing the letter "B". The new light tower is similar to the new Ambrose Light built in 1999 but dismantled in 2008 after a ship struck it.
In 1996 the present structure replaced a Texas Tower built in 1961, which in turn had replaced the lightships Hens & Chickens (LV-5) and Vineyard Sound (LV-10). Since it sits in water 50 ft (15m) deep, a conventional lighthouse would have been difficult, forcing the choice of structure.
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