Save The Bay kicks off 2015 lighthouse tour season with May 23 northern lighthouses

Posted 5/21/15

Save The Bay kicks off its 2015 lighthouse tour season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, with a 3.5-hour Northern Lighthouse Tour departing from the Bay Center at Fields Point in Providence. Narrated by …

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Save The Bay kicks off 2015 lighthouse tour season with May 23 northern lighthouses

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Save The Bay kicks off its 2015 lighthouse tour season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, with a 3.5-hour Northern Lighthouse Tour departing from the Bay Center at Fields Point in Providence. Narrated by David Kelleher, a Friend of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse and member of the American Lighthouse Foundation, the tour offers breathtaking views of 10 active and inactive lighthouses around Gaspee Point, Hog Island, Prudence Island and Conimicut Point, as well as an inside tour of Pomham Light. The recent restoration efforts of Friends of Pomham Rock Lighthouse have made it one of the more stunning lights in the Bay.

Other lighthouses included in the season’s inaugural tour are:

Bristol Ferry Light just under the Mt. Hope Bridge, a privately-owned brick lighthouse that was operational from 1855 through 1927.

Conimicut Light, seen from both Conimicut Point in Warwick and Nayatt Point in Barrington.

Hog Island Shoal Light, whose Spark-plug, or coffee pot towers, design served as the standard from the 1870s through the 1900s.

Nayatt Point Light, originally built in 1828 to help guide transports in and out of the narrow river shoals toward Narragansett Bay, and later rebuilt to protect the entrance to the river further south.

Prudence Island Light, Rhode Island’s oldest, maintained today by the Prudence Island Conservancy.

Sabin Point Light, whose keeper and his wife were each swept away – but survived – in the hurricane of ’38.

Warwick Light, the last Cast Iron Tower style of lighthouse remaining in New England, and best seen by boat.

From May 23 through early October, Save The Bay also offers a 7-hour Ultimate Lighthouse Tour, featuring 20 active and inactive lighthouses and an inside tour of Rose Island Lighthouse, a 3.5-hour Southern Lighthouse Tour departing out of Newport and offering historical sights of the lower part of Narragansett Bay, views of 11 lighthouses, and an inside tour of Rose Island Lighthouse, and 90-minute sunset cruises with views of four lighthouses in Upper Narragansett Bay. For more information and to purchase tour tickets, visit our lighthouse tour website at www.savebay.org/lighthouse. Portions of the proceeds from our lighthouse cruises are used to support the restoration and preservation of Pomham Rocks Lighthouse and Rose Island Lighthouse.

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