These are photos I took in 2002, on a OBLHS/Chesapeake joint cruise...

Newport News Middle Ground


Thimble Shoals

You can see those dangling ladders on both.

NNMG sits right beside the Monitor-Merimac bridge/tunnel. The USCG replaced the white light with a red one in 2000 because it was lost in all the lights on the bridge. That ended the confusion. Even if someday this lh is taken down, there will always be an Aid to Navigation at this spot because it's marking the very dangerous Middleground shoal.

Thimble Shoals sets at the entrance to busy Hampton Roads, also marking a dangerous shoal. It can be seen from the boardwalk at Fort Monroe.

Judy