Long Beach Light

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location = Long Beach Harbor, California
coordinates = coord|33|43|23|N|118|11|12|W|region:US_type:landmark
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shape = SG on white rectangular tower on building on columnar base.
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height = convert|42|ft|m, 50 feet above sea level
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range = 20 nm
characteristic = Flashing White 5s. Emergency light of reduced intensity when main light is extinguished. HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl). Operates continuously.
ARLHS = USA-447
USCG = 6-0125

Long Beach Light also known as the Long Beach Harbor Light is a lighthouse on Long Beach Harbor in California.

History

Long Beach Harbor Light looks different from a traditional lighthouse. Labeled the "robot light" when established in 1949, it is completely automated and was the forerunner of the new version of 20th-century lighthouses on America's West Coast. The convert|42|ft|m|sing=on high white, rectangular tower with a columnar base, features a convert|36|in|mm|sing=on airway-type beacon and is controlled by the ANRAC system from the Los Angeles Harbor Light. The three-story facility, of monolithic design, is built of concrete supported on six cement columns cast into six pockets of a crib. In its commanding position in San Pedro's middle breakwater, the lighthouse was considered an uncanny mechanical wonder when first established, it no longer gets the "ooh"s and "ahhh"s it was once accorded. Later, another navigation light in the Long Beach area was erected atop the pilot station at the Port of Long Beach in 1968. Marking the harbor entrance channel, the light is accompanied by one of the United States Coast Guard's radar scanners.

External links

* [http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHCA.html USCG site]