Lightship WAL-605, RELIEF

  • Also Known As: OVERFALLS also BLUNTS also WLV-605

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure

Built in 1950 and originally associated with the Overfalls lightship station off the Delaware coast, WAL-605 was subsequently sent to the Pacific to serve at the significant Blunts Reef station on the northern California coast. She ended her career as the Relief lightship, serving as a replacement vessel at all Pacific Coast stations. WAL-605 is representative of the end of more than a century and a half of American lightship operation. - NPS, 20 December 1989


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1951/02/15 Rice Brothers Corporation Naval Architect Rice Brothers deliver United States lightship WAL-605
1975/00/00 United States lightship is decommisioned

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Particulars for Lightship WAL-605, RELIEF:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Historic Use Coast Guard facility
Criteria Historic Event
Level of Significance National
Area of Significance Politics-government
Owner Private
Area of Significance Social History
Sight Category Structure
Historic Use Water-related



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 20th December 1989

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Lightship WAL-605, RELIEF
Registry Address: Oakland Estuary in Brroklyn Basin
Registry Number: 89002462
Resource Type: Structure
Owner: Private
Architect: Rice Brothers
Contributing Structures: 1
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Certification: Listed in the National Register
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Politics-government, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Period of Significance: 1950-1974, 1975-2000
Significant Year: 1950
Historic Function: Transportation, Defense
Historic Sub-Function: Water-related, Coast Guard facility
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Museum

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