- * [Boatswain Point (2)]
- Date unknown (station established late 1930s). Active; focal plane 27 m (89 ft); one long (1.8 s)
white flash every 15 s. 6 m (20 ft) triangular steel skeletal tower
with gallery, painted white. Terry Fletcher has a photo, Andrew McCarthy has a 2020 photo, Trabas has Capt. Peter's photo, and Google has a street view, but the small tower is inconspicuous in Google's satellite
view.
Forand has a historic postcard photo of the original light. Located on Boatswain Bay Road near the northwestern point of Grand Cayman, at the end of
a narrow peninsula about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Georgetown.
Site open, tower closed. ARLHS CAY-003; Admiralty J5222; NGA 13720.
- #[South
West Point (South Sound) (2)]
- Date unknown (station established 1937). Destroyed 2004. Formerly
a 30 ft steel tower.
Originally built onshore near the southwestern point of Grand Cayman,
the light was relocated around 1992 to Sand Key, a sandbar about 1
km (0.6 mi) offshore. Cayman Islands Port Director Paul Hurlston reports
that the light was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan on 11 September 2004.
No photo available. ARLHS CAY-004; ex-Admiralty J5230; ex-NGA 13732.
- * [Grand
Cayman (Anchor Light, Memorial Light, Georgetown)]
- 1980. Inactive since 2023.
6 m (20 ft) round concrete tower topped by a skeletal mast. The tower is white with a black band on the mast. Douglas Cameron's photo is above, Trabas has Arndt's photo,
Christopher Price has a street view, and the shadow of the light is seen in Bing's satellite view.
This light was built as a memorial to local sailors lost at sea.
Located on Harbour Drive just south of Fort Street in Georgetown. Site open,
tower closed. ARLHS CAY-002; Admiralty J5232; NGA 13716.
- * [Gorling
Bluff (East End) (3)]
- 1937 (station established about 1907). Active; focal plane 22 m (72 ft);
two 1.2 s white flashes every 20 s. 8 m (26 ft) square steel skeletal
tower, painted white, on a small black base. Marc Barrison's photo is at right, Trabas
has a photo,
Cherine Usherwood has a 2018 closeup photo, Tisha Titus also has a closeup photo, and
Google has a satellite
view of the site. The original light was a kerosene lantern displayed from a 19 m (60 ft) ship's mast. The second (1937) light was
a steel mast with a lantern holding a kerosene lamp; remains of this
light stand behind the current beacon. Located on a bluff in East End Lighthouse
Park at the eastern end of Grand Cayman Island. Accessible by a stairway from Austin Conolly Drive; the entrance is marked but there's no parking nearby. Site open, tower closed.
Site manager: National
Trust for the Cayman Islands. ARLHS CAY-001; Admiralty J5226; NGA 13724.
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East End Light, Grand Cayman, August 2011
Flickr Creative Commons photo by Marc Barrison
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