Lynde Point then became commonly known as the "Saybrook Inner Light" and Saybrook Breakwater became known as the "Saybrook Outer Light".
In Provincetown, the harbor breakwater leads out to Long Point and its two lighthouses — Wood End Light on the west and Long Point Light on the east.
Across the street from the commemorative park is the beginning of the breakwater leading out to Long Point and its two lighthouses — Wood End Light on the west and Long Point Light on the east.
Out past the breakwater, he could see the atoll lighthouse dragging its yellow light in a circle over the curve of the reef, the shape of the ship chiselled out of the darkness.
Despite the careful attention to the scruffy foreground knob of land and the breakwater in the middle distance, and notwithstanding the scientific analysis of light and color, the effect is strangely unreal.
Although there is a blinking red light at one end of the jetty, under certain conditions, like the haze that hung over the water at the time of the accident, the breakwater would be "pretty easy to miss," said the Greenport harbor master, Joe Angevine.
Later, the Corsica Regina ferry swung dizzyingly around the end of the breakwater under the illuminated ocher walls of Bastia's old quarter, and the lights of Corsica began to settle into the distance as we dined aboard this more Italian-flavored carrier headed for steamy Genoa.
It had had a great view, and now, standing at his desk, we could see the swooping edge of the Gulf of Mexico, the hulking crenellated Morro Castle, the narrow neck of the Bay of Havana, the wide coastal road, the orange-haired hookers who loll on the low gray breakwater, and then acres and acres of smooth blue water shining like chrome in the afternoon light.
In morning light the red brick lighthouse and accompanying wood-frame keeper's house set at the breakwater's end form a dramatic sight as they seem to float in the middle of the harbor.
On the night 14/15 October, as she was slowly rounding the breakwater at Holyhead, Fingal rammed and sank the Austrian brig Siccardi, slowly swinging at anchor without lights.
