Your welcome to fact check it , here is the video i refer to in the original post
Ha, I did fact check it, waaaay back when I first heard it roughly a decade ago. Like for example the battleships 'involved' would have been the Iowa class
Missouri and
Wisconson (as they were involved in Desert Storm) but that time it was a canadian lighthouse and the script ended with 'we're a lighthouse, your call buddy'. It's such a myth, it epitomises the concept of a myth that people believe without actually looking into it.
The story is actually a sort of parable about not letting your own sense of importance get in the way of the reality of a situation.
Come on man, think about it. As if the officer of the watch in command of a US Navy aircraft carrier battle group is going to mistake a lighthouse for a ship. As if every individual in navigation and radar on every ship, every aircraft on CAP, the AWACs, the anti submarine helicopters, the escort ships, the dude with a set of binoculars looking at a steady flashing light in the distance is going to mistake a lighthouse for a ship.
As if the officer on the radio is going to state his destination and intentions to a random ship he encounters, when heading to the Persian Gulf to start the bombardment for Desert Storm.
I'm not gonna sit here and say individual ships don't make mistakes and spank into things. But generally it's another ship, and it isn't in groups of about a dozen warships with several mile spacings between them hitting a single landmass with a light on top.