Ramaypatnam Lighthouse is connected by a 20 km pucca road to Kaveli railway station on Chennai-Howrah trunk rout. There wasn’t any lighthouse provided at Ramaypatnam prior to the present one. A church built in 1870 at Ramaypatnam served as a land mark for the benefit of ships cruising off the Ramaypatnam coast. The Lighthouse Tower was built in 1982 and the PRB-21 equipment supplied by M/s Asia Navigation Aids,New Delhi was installed on it. The lighthouse was commissioned in to service on 26th June1982. The sealed beam lamps were replaced by Auto Head lights with 12 V 100 W halogen lamps in February 1996