Owls Head Lighthouse
A Lost Light
Photo - © Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Department of Transport Lighthouse Collection
Owls Head Lighthouse before 1965
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Owls Head Lighthouse Locator Map
This lighthouse stood on the head, at the outer entrance to Ship Harbour on the Eastern Shore. The lantern was red on the roof of a wood dwelling painted white. Between 1966 and 1970 it was replaced by a skeleton tower with white slatwork daymarks. We believe that this lighthouse building is now used as a summer cottage.
OWLS HEAD - Light Details
- Location: On head, outer entrance to Ship Harbour
- Standing: This light is still standing.
- Operating: This light is no longer operating.
- Date Automated: Automated by 1970
- Began: 1912
- Year Lit: 1912
- Structure Type: Lantern, red on roof of wood dwelling, white
- Light Characteristic: Occulting White (1922)
- Tower Height: 038ft feet high.
- Light Height: 088ft feet above water level.
History Items for This Lighthouse
- 1922 - 4th order dioptric lens, hand fog horn
- 1960 - hand fog horn in answer to vessels - 1960 - 1962 - fog horn discontinued
- 1966 - 1970 - replaced by skeleton tower between these dates
- 1995 - believe this is tower used as cottage (under investigation Oct 2019)