Type:
Year Established:
1910
Existing:
Yes
Source:
Wikipedia
Download:
Elbow of Cross Ledge, NJ REE 2018.jpg (5.28 MB)
File Type:
jpg (image/jpeg)
Photo Date:
2018
Photo Credit:
Ralph Eshelman
Photo Courtesy of:
US Lighthouse Society
Collection / Donor:
LOCATION
Location:
Delaware Bay Cross Ledge Shoal
Latitude:
39° 10.9'
Longitude:
75° 16.1'
City / Town:
FORTESCUE
U.S. State:
New Jersey
Country:
United States
OWNER & ACCESS
Open to Public:
No
STRUCTURE
Year Discontinued:
N/A
Disposition:
Damaged by a Freighter in 1953 and Replaced with a Red Steel Skeletal Tower on Old Foundation
Year Tower Established:
1953
Tower Construction Material:
BRICK
Tower Foundation:
CAST IRON/CONCRETE CAISSON
Height, in feet, from base of structure to center of lantern:
61 feet
Tower Shape:
OCTAGONAL
Fog Signal Building?:
No
Keeper's Quarters?:
No
Year Keeper's Quarters:
1910
Keeper's Quarters Construction:
BRICK
OPTICS
Original Optic Type:
FOURTH ORDER
Year Original Lens Installed:
1910
Private Aid:
No
Year Automated:
1951
USCG Access to Optics:
No
Entered by:
Entered Date:
Jan 15, 2018
1901 STATION WAS GAS BUOY; SKELETON TOWER REPLACED BRICK OCTOGONAL HOUSE AFTER SHIP COLLIDED WITH IT AND DESTROYED IT IN 1953