Mariners Guiding Light
by James Williamson
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Title
Mariners Guiding Light
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Cape Kennedy (Canaveral) Light (1868)
Artist James Williamson, ASMA
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
Erected at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1848, this 65-foot tower was placed primarily to warn ships of shoals that extended out from there. However, the structure had too inadequate a light to be effective; ships had to come in too close to see it and thereby placed themselves in danger of wrecking on the very shoals the light was supposed to guard them against. The board recommended erecting a new tower 150 feet tall. Just before the Civil War began, workmen started putting up an iron tower; hostilities soon called a halt to the endeavor. In 1865, the board resumed work on the tower, completing and lighting it May 10, 1868. The light from the first-order lens was 139 feet above sea level and visible eighteen miles. The conical tower was built of cast iron and lined with bricks. In 1873, the board had it painted with black and white horizontal bands, similar to the Bodie Island tower.
Sea erosion threatened the tower, and by 1883, only 192 feet of beach separated the structure from the Atlantic Ocean. After futile attempts to halt the erosion with jetties, the Lighthouse Board tore down the tower and re-erected it in 1893-94 one and one-quarter miles west of the old site. The keeper lighted the lens at the new location on July 25, 1894. Still active, the lighthouse is known today as the Cape Kennedy light.
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