sentences:  Original equipped with Argand lamps and reflectors, it was upgraded in 1855 with a sixth order Fresnel lens, later replaced with a fourth order lens.By 1878 the Lighthouse Board was reporting that erosion at the point threatened the light, and that it was ill-located and too small to be seen against the lights of the town.An appropriation to replace the light was made in 1889, and in 1892 a new screw-pile lighthouse was activated.