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1 pm - 4:30 pm 

Seven days a week (Memorial Day thru Labor Day)

Wed. - Sun. (rest of the year)

Closed on Holidays

 

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Welcome Aboard!

When the Huron Lightship (LV-103) was retired from active service in 1970, she was the last lightship on the Great Lakes and a 50-year veteran of lake duty.  She had been stationed at various places on Lake Michigan until 1935 when she was transferred to the Corsica Shoals in Lake Huron, approximately six miles east of the Michigan shoreline.  For the next 36 years, she guided mariners into the narrow dredged channel of lower Lake Huron leading the the St. Clair River.

Serving as Floating Lighthouses, lightships were anchored in areas where it was too deep, expensive, or impractical to construct a lighthouse.

They displayed a light at the top of a mast and also sounded a fog signal (bells, whistles, trumpets, sirens, horns) and radio beacon when needed.  The Huron Lightship sounded her foghorn in three-second blasts every 30 seconds and was affectionately known locally as "old-Bee-Oh" because of the familiar sound her horn made.

• Built in 1920 by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Company in New York

• Acquired by mandate of area residents and enshrined at Pine Grove Park in 1972 as a tribute to her vigilance and in fond memory of a by-gone-era

• Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989

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