It featured a fixed white light and a fog bell. The cottage was assembled at the Lazaretto Depot in Maryland. Some parts of the lighthouse came from the former Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse in North Carolina. The lens was replaced in 1899 with a fifth-order lens. In 1935, the superstructure was torn down and an automated light on a steel skeleton tower was erected on the old foundation.
Nothing remains today.
Once located over a mile north of Craney Island Lighthouse . Three lightships served at this station, marking the approaches to Norfolk and Portsmouth. A lighted buoy was placed in 1918 after the station was discontinued. This site may now be buried after the enlargement of Craney Island. Two lightships served here.