Lighthouse of the Week, September 24-30, 2023: Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse, Wisconsin, USA

 

I discovered accidentally that while I had featured two pictures of the Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse here (several years ago - I've been doing this awhile!) I didn't actually feature the Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse as a Lighthouse of the Week, with history, location, and things like that.

So this week I fix that oversight.

There are several pages about this one;  so before I do the history thing, I'll do the location thing (if you're familiar with Wisconsin's Lake Michigan coast, that isn't difficult), and then the various pages, and then the history, and then the pictures.

Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse (Lighthouse Friends)

Sheboygan Breakwater Lighthouse - WI Shipwrecks

History Uncovered: the First Two Sheboygan Lighthouses

And of course, there's the Lighthouse Directory:

"1905 (relocated to present site in 1915) (station established 1900). Active; focal plane 55 ft (17 m); continuous red light. 50 ft (15 m) round steel tower, painted bright red, incorporating a fog signal and surmounted by a navigation beacon; lantern removed. Fog horn (blast every 30 s) on demand. The tower also carries an array of weather instruments as a NOAA National Data Buoy Center C-MAN station. ... The lighthouse was originally on the North Pier as the third light at that site (station established 1873); it was relocated when the breakwater was completed in 1915."

 So it's a lighthouse without a light (but we've seen that a few times before).