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Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse
Jamestown series 1980
Fran Gorman ink

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse
Photo by Violet Hayward - ca 1930s

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse
Aerial photo - Jerry Taylor, Newport, RI

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse
Color photo - Kowal

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse
Beavertail Point - Copyright John T Hopf

Postcard Beavertail Lighthouse
Color photo - Stanley J. Szelka

This "Quick Red Flashing" navigation light was donated to the museum by Ronald Bugenski MM2, former Assistant Lighthouse Keeper here at Beavertail from 1962 to 1965.

This Radio Direction Finder (RDF) is typical of those used in vessels for navigation purposes by determining the bearing of radio signals transmitting from shore stations and lightships. The radio beacon from the Brenton Reef lightship and later the…

This bass was caught by A. S. Clarke on Oct. 22, 1936, weighing 65lbs. As of this writing (2021), it still holds the record for the largest striped bass ever caught from the shore. It weighed in at 65 pounds. The fish was restored by John P. Lopes,…

This "blinking Light" is one of the biggest "Single Piece Acrylic Fresnel Optic". Manufactured by Tideland Signal Co, this type of light is often used in lighthouses, beacons, platforms, and channel markers as it is able to produce a stronger light…

Wall panel describing the history and activities of the US Lifesaving Service along the Rhode Island coastline.

Framed certificate 2010 Preservation Project Award

Wall plaque

Hand built model

Video donated to BLMA by Linda Warner.
12 min 6 seconds long
m4v format video