Queenscliff Low (White) Lighthouse

The White Lighthouse at Queenscliff is the lower light of the two lighthouses at Queenscliff, and along with two steel towers guides ships through the Rip and into Port Phillip Bay.

History

The white lighthouse at Queenscliff was built 1862 to replace an earlier wooden lighthouse erected in 1853.

It is built of the same bluestone that was used to build the Black Lighthouse but was painted white to distinguish it in daylight.

The new light was built in conjunction with the Black (rear) Lighthouse and therefore had many similarities in design.

The lantern and optic were manufactured by Chance Brothers in England.

The light was converted to gas in 1890 and later converted to electricity in 1924.

The lighthouse forms the front, or low, of a system of lights that gives mid-channel direction when in line with the High Light.

The light, automated, is now unmanned.

Keepers

We need your help in compiling a list of keepers for this lighthouse. If you have any information then send it to keeper@lighthouses.org.au.

Please include this lighthouse’s name, the keepers full name and what years they were keepers. Also include the same information for any other lights they were on.