Type:
Year Established:
1888
Existing:
Yes
Source:
LL-1907
Download:
Barber's Point HI TAT 2011.jpeg (458.1 KB)
File Type:
jpeg (image/jpeg)
Photo Date:
2011
Photo Credit:
Thomas Tag
Photo Courtesy of:
US Lighthouse Society Archives
Collection / Donor:
LOCATION
Location:
KALAELOA/OAHU ISLAND
Latitude:
21° 17.58'
Longitude:
158° 6.32'
U.S. State:
Hawaii
Location County:
HONOLULU
Country:
United States
OWNER & ACCESS
Open to Public:
No
STRUCTURE
Year Tower Established:
1933
Tower Construction Material:
CONCRETE
Tower Foundation:
MASONRY
Height of light above mean high water, in feet:
50 feet above water
Height, in feet, from base of structure to center of lantern:
36 feet
Tower Shape:
CYLINDRICAL W/OUT LANTERN
Tower Daymark:
White
Fog Signal Building?:
Yes
Keeper's Quarters?:
No
Year Keeper's Quarters:
1915
Keeper's Quarters Construction:
WOOD
OPTICS
Current Optic:
DCB-224
Original Optic Type:
FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
Year Original Lens Installed:
1888
Private Aid:
No
USCG Access to Optics:
Yes
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Jul 20, 2017
1888 - First tower constructed, lantern had flat glass windows and a masonry parapet wall below lantern windows. Access to exterior of lantern via a ladder from the ground.
1912 - Lantern windows changed to curved glass, door added to brick parapet wall, new
rotating lens, brackets under lantern deck & weight tube.
1912 - Lens changed from fixed white to a rotating lens with a group flash characteristic
of two white flashes every 5 seconds.
1933 – New taller cast concrete tower.
1933 – Roof and windows of lantern transferred from old tower to new tower, new cast
iron parapet wall constructed for new tower.
Grab rail added to roofline.
1964 - Lantern removed from tower to accommodate the new DCB-36 aero beacon.
Gone now for 50 years and presumed destroyed.....
1985? - A lantern is found in U.S. Navy warehouse in Astoria OR
Placed on display.
Today - has been on display at Columbia River Maritime Museum unidentified for 30?
Years.