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Ram Island Light

Boothbay Harbor, ME · Active aid to navigation

No access information published

Those records publish navigation and historic data only — no visitor-access information — so none is shown. Access, if any, is set by the owner or operator.

Access source: Federal records checked: the U.S. Coast Guard AtoN / Light List record for this aid and its National Register of Historic Places record · Checked 2026-11-12

Owner / operator: U.S. Coast Guard (active aid to navigation)

The light

LocationBoothbay Harbor, ME (Lincoln County)
StatusActive aid to navigation (USCG AtoN file)
Light List number5420
Light characteristicIso R 6s
Height of light above water36 ft (USCG AtoN)
StructureWhite tower
National Register of Historic PlacesListed 1/21/1988 · Reference #87002280
Position43.80376, -69.59920 (federal record; not for navigation)
Coast Guard remarkWhite from 258° to 261° and from 030° to 046°, covers fairways. HORN: 1 blast ev 30s (3s bl). Fog signal is radio activated, during times of reduced visibility, turn marine VHF-FM radio to channel 83A/157.175Mhz. Key microphone 5 times consecutively, to activate fog signal for 45 minutes.

Sources

USCG AtoN file via NOAA MarineCadastre (USCG NAVCEN data); NPS National Register of Historic Places listed-properties database (nps.gov).

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