Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Whale Rock - or what's left of it.....



Whale Rock/Submarine Rock is the smallest island in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. Submarine/Whale Rock is located in the West Passage of the bay, in Narragansett, Washington County, Rhode Island, west of the Beavertail area on Conanicut Island (Jamestown, Rhode Island). The island received its name because it is shaped like a whale's back or submarine's bow; it was responsible for numerous shipwrecks prior to the construction of a lighthouse. A lighthouse was built on the rock in 1882, but the Hurricane of 1938 destroyed the lighthouse, killing the keeper. Currently, no light exists on submarine/Whale Rock, and only part of the lighthouse foundation remains.

Here is what it looked like before the hurricane:

And sadly, after the great hurricane of 1938, this is now all that is left:

Kind of a stretch saying this counts as one of the 10 light houses on the tour, but it does....

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