Coast Guard Lightship WLV 605 - Relief (decommissioned)

The name on the hull is a job, not a christening. Lightships carried the name of the station they marked, so this one wore OVERFALLS off the Delaware coast from 1951 and BLUNTS REEF off Cape Mendocino from 1959. In 1969 it took the name RELIEF, standing in on any West Coast station while the regular ship went in for repairs. Retired in 1975, it passed to a private owner, who gave it to the United States Lighthouse Society in 1986, and volunteers sailed it back from Half Moon Bay the next year. No plaque marks it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Woods National Monument — 17 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Muir Beach Overlook — 17 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.

More markers nearby

• Pardee Home — 0.6 mi
• First Unitarian Church of Oakland — 0.8 mi
• Site of College of California — 0.8 mi
• Paramount Theatre — 1.2 mi