1960 OF LIGHTS AND LIGHTSHIPS

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.