Huron Lightship
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Huron Lightship

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Address
800 Prospect Place
Port Huron, MI 48060
Regions: Port Huron
Phone
(810) 984-9768
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Description
Climb aboard the Huron Lightship for a look at the crews quarters and hear stories about the Huron’s duties.

Lightships were like floating lighthouses anchored in areas where it was too deep, expensive or impractical to construct a lighthouse. Lightships displayed a light at the top of a mast and in areas of fog also sounded a fog signal and radio beacon.

The HURON Lightship sounded her fog horn signal in a 3 second blast every 30 seconds and was known locally as “Old B.O.” because of the familiar sound her horn made.