[4] In 1813, the light was extinguished by a group of Royal Marines in a raid led by Commodore Thomas Hardy during the War of 1812.

[4] On May 12, 1881, the Galatea, bound from Providence, Rhode Island to New York, ran aground in the calm due to the dense fog.

[10][11][12] The sale for $381,000 broke the record for the highest bid received to that date under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act.

[citation needed] Little Gull Island Light is shown on the NOAA Chart 12354[13] The Archives Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a collection (#1055) of souvenir postcards of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online.

These include postcards of Little Gull Island Light [14] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.