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| Gould Island Light Station |
First Lit: Jun 10, 1889; Deactivated: 1947
at Position: N 41° 32.2', W 71° 20.7' Nautical Chart
North End of Gould Island,
Eastern Passage of Narragansett Bay,
between Conanicut Island and Newport, Rhode Island
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Notes: (1) Gould Island Light was first built as private beacon by the Fall River Steamship Line to mark the island located in the middle of the channel of the Eastern Passage of Narragansett Bay. In 1877, a Congress hearing determined the private light to be undependable and appropriated $10,000 to establish a Lighthouse with Fog signal. A 30-feet high brick Tower was built was built 30-feet north of a 2-story Keeper’s House. The Lighthouse was First Lit June 10, 1889 exhibiting a flashing white light every 10 seconds illuminated by a Fifth-order Fresnel lens. (2) 1939 Optic: Fourth-order Fresnel Lens, Fl W 10s, 11,000 cp incandescent oil vapor (3) Since 1919, the north end of Gould Island has been used by the U.S. Navy for torpedo testing with a firing pier marked by Lighted Marker. The 1889 Lighthouse was razed in 1960 and replaced by an automated white Steel Tower. After years of deterioration, the base of Tower failed destroying the beacon on Oct 24, 1988. (4) In 1901, Captain John Bebber reported trees obstructed the Light when approaching the island from the south. Removing some trees from the heavily wooded island did not solve the problem. In 1932, the Lighthouse Service built a acetylene light on a Skeleton Tower at the South end of the island in response to a petition to improve marking the island. Gould Island South Light
Aid No. 17960 at Position: N 41° 31.8', W 71° 20.6' Nautical Chart
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Copyright ©2000 to 2004 by Debbie Dolphin.
Document Updated: Sunday, March 14, 2004, 09:03:00pm Eastern Standard Time (-5GMT)
