Staten Island Light, New York

The approach to New York Harbor is filled with numerous aids and lights to help the mariner safely reach his destination. To aid shipping a new channel, known as the Ambrose Channel, was planned, dredged and completed in 1908. To facilitate the use of the new channel the Light House Board planned to build a set of range lights. The front range light for the Ambrose Channel would be the West Bank Light previously built and lit in Raritan Bay in 1901. A new rear range light needed to be constructed on Staten Island to range with the West Bank Light.

The lighthouse tower interior was lined with red brick and contained a 104 step staircase leading to the lantern. The lantern housed a kerosene lamp which produced a 1,500 candlepower light source and it was teamed with a clamshell 2nd Order Fresnel range lens produced by the Chance Bros. & Co. of Birmingham, England. The lens magnified the lamps output by 233% in a fixed beam visible for 21 miles. In 1939 the light was electrified.

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The lighthouse tower interior was lined with red brick and contained a 104 step staircase leading to the lantern. The lantern housed a kerosene lamp which produced a 1,500 candlepower light source and it was teamed with a clamshell 2nd Order Fresnel range lens produced by the Chance Bros. & Co. of Birmingham, England. The lens magnified the lamps output by 233% in a fixed beam visible for 21 miles. In 1939 the light was electrified.

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