HISTORY OF CAPE
HENLOPEN AND BEYOND
LIGHTS AND LIGHTSHIPS
1960
Wilmington Morning News,
Wednesday May 11, 1960 :
A new light which was
placed on the Harbor of Refuge breakwater at Cape
Henlopen is rated a one
million candlepower a big jump from the 50,000 candlepower
present one. It will
permit the removal of the veteran lightship Overfalls. The new
light has met the approval
of the U. S. Coast Guard and the Pilots Association of the
Delaware Bay and River.
The Five Fathom Bank
lightship still wallowing at her mooring off Cape May,
when her relocation
further out to sea and renamed the Lightship Delaware, was
suggested the Coast Guard the pilots said 'not so fast here'
as incoming ships might hit the “Rock Shoals”. The pilots
suggest the Overfalls be stationed out to sea or use lightship
“Winter
Quarter Shoal”
Approved was a line of
mid - channel lighted radar reflector equipped sound buoys
to lead into the bay.
A bit of news of the
French prism lamp once at the top of the Cape Henlopen Light,
removed before her fall to
the sea, and destroy in a fire at the buoy depot up here.
Abstracts: Wilmington
Morning News, Wednesday, May 11, 1960.
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