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Lighthouse History
Built: 1964 Type: Texas Tower Height: 130 feet Status: Non-Active Location: 28 miles Southeast of Oak Island Deactivated: November 2003 Lens: 1979 Automated Keepers: Michael Allen (1977-1978) & U.S. Coast Guard Notes: Before there was the
Frying Pan Light Tower there was the Frying Pan Lightship. In 1854 a lightship
with two lights forty feet high was stationed at Frying Pan Shoals to guide
ships safely past the shoals to Wilmington. Except for a four-year break
during the Civil War, this lightship and its successors marked the shoals
for 112 years. There also was a break in service during WWII from 1942-1945
where the lightship was taken off the shoals and reassigned as an inspection
vessel due to German U-boat activity off the North Carolina coast.
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