FHBRO # Not applicable

LOL # 1051

BUILD First lighthouse built 1967. Present lighthouse built 1975

POSITION 46 25 4 8.2 N 63 08 35.3 W On Cape Stanhope at the entrance to Covehead Harbour

LIGHT White: flash 0.5 seconds, eclipse 4.5 seconds

FOCAL POINT 11m (36 ft)

TOWER HEIGHT 8.2 m (27 ft)

NOMINAL RANGE 11.2 km (7 miles)

The first Covehead Lighthouse was located at Red Point. It was a three-sided structure. The experimental form always looked crooked. In 1975 the site was moved due to erosion, and a new square tapered lighthouse was built. It has always been fully automated and is considered a landfall light. The lighthouse was renovated in 1994 due to rotting and is now covered with pressure treated cedar siding.

The bulls-eye lens is over 100 years old. It was brought from Dalhousie, New Brunswick. The lens is made of cut prisms called bull’s eyes which concentrate the light and send it out in one direction. The bulb is changed every three to five years because it begins to blacken, but it never burns out.

There is a plaque on the side of the lighthouse describing the Yankee Gale, remembering the eighty ships and 161 men who perished in the savage 1851 storm.

The lighthouse is located within the Prince Edward Island National Park.