Photo Gallery. Visitor Info. Ogden Point Breakwater Lighthouse. The rubble mound breakwater has a length of 2, feet and is capped with granite blocks and a concrete superstructure.
The two concrete piers were originally about feet long and feet wide, with a clearance between them of feet. Each block, quarried on nearby Hardy Island, weighing up to 15 tons was stacked in a nine course pyramid. Attesting to the sound engineering and meticulous construction, the breakwater has not required any major upgrades since it was built, and only blocks have ever required repositioning over the intervening years. The Ogden Point Breakwater was completed on schedule in , a notable accomplishment considering the demands World War I places on resources of all kinds.
Upon its completion it was determined the Macauley Point breakwater was superfluous so was not built. In outboard end was marked by an occulting white acetylene lamp forty feet above high water atop the concrete tower that stands there today.
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It was never built. The two concrete piers were originally about feet long and feet wide with a clearance between them of feet. Photo Murray Polson collection. The Sir John Jackson Company won the contract to build the breakwater.
They secured a quarry at Royal Bay to supply the materials for construction. The local engineering firm of A. One was to work at Royal Bay and the other to work at Ogden Point. Work began in on the Ogden Point breakwater by a contract issued by the Dominion Government of Canada. The broad design idea was to create a rip-rap mound on top of which a mass concrete wall would be built. Large blocks of granite would then be placed on the weather side of the wall in order to protect both the wall and the rubble.
The rubble was to be transported by scow. The derricks had to be huge machines. They had to handle heavy granite rubble and granite blocks, half of the granite blocks not less than six tonnes and the rest not less than eight tonnes. The lifting timbers were 14" x 16" and 70 feet long.
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