Manitowoc Breakwater Light

Manitowoc Breakwater Light

Manitowoc Breakwater Lighthouse
Location	Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Coordinates	44°05′34″N 87°38′37″W
Year first lit	1918
Automated	1971
Foundation	Pier
Construction	Steel
Tower shape	Cylindrical on square fog signaling building
Height	40 feet (12 m)
Original lens	Fourth order Fresnel lens
Range	15 statute miles (24 km)
Characteristic	White, Isophase, 6 sec

The Manitowoc Breakwater lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Manitowoc in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

Located on the north breakwater at the entrance of Manitowoc harbor.

USCG archive photo

Specialized additional reading

• Havighurst, Walter (1943) The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes, Macmillan Publishers.
• Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
• Pepper, Terry. "Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes". http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/index.htm. 
• Sapulski, Wayne S., (2001) Lighthouses of Lake Michigan: Past and Present (Paperback) (Fowlerville: Wilderness Adventure Books) ISBN 0923568476; ISBN 978-0923568474.
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1-55046-399-3.

External links

• Seeing the light
• Lighthouse friends article
• NPS Inventory of Historic Light Stations - Wisconsin
• Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/wi.htm. 
• "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Wisconsin". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHWI.asp. 
• (PDF) Light List, Volume VII, Great Lakes. Light List. United States Coast Guard. http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pdf/lightLists/LightList%20V7.pdf.