Built in 1950 and originally associated with the Overfalls lightship station off the Delaware coast, WAL-605 was subsequently sent to the Pacific to serve at the significant Blunts Reef station on the northern California coast. She ended her career as the Relief lightship, serving as a replacement vessel at all Pacific Coast stations. WAL-605 is representative of the end of more than a century and a half of American lightship operation.

National Register Statement of Significance for Lightship WAL-605

Lightship Relief is also California Historical Landmark 1036.

The San Francisco Bay Area Maritime Trail

• Bay Model Visitor Center
• San Francisco Maritime National Park
• Submarine USS Pampanito
• World War II Liberty Ship SS Jeremiah O'Brien
• U.S. Coast Guard Lightship RELIEF
• Former Presidential Yacht USS Potomac
• Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet
• World War II Victory Ship SS Red Oak Victory
• Lone Sailor Memorial
• Navy Cruiser USS San Francisco Memorial
• Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park