Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and OrganizationAdams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
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Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
Lighthouses; Lightships
370. =Holyhead=, inner harbour, port side; one fixed light,
green; erected 1866.
371. =Holyhead=, inner harbour, starboard side; one fixed
light, red; erected 1866.
372_a_. =Stack Rock=, off north-west point of Holyhead Island,
lat. 53° 18´; one light, revolving every 2 minutes, visible 20
miles; circular tower, 84 feet high; erected 1809. [“During
foggy weather, a _bell_ is sounded, and a smaller _bright
light_, revolving in 1½ minutes, is occasionally shown about 40
feet above the sea, and 30 yards north of the main lighthouse.
A gun is also fired from the North Stack every hour and
half-hour during foggy weather; and, when the mail packets are
expected, every quarter of an hour, from 10.45. A.M. till 45
minutes past noon; and again from 11.45 P.M. till 1.45 A.M.”]
372_b_. [++]=Caernarvon= Lightship, lat. 53° 5´ 45´´; one
light, revolving every 20 seconds, and visible 10 miles; fixed
1870.
373. =Caernarvon=, Llanddwyn Island, lat. 53° 8´; one fixed
light, visible 5 miles; erected 1845.
374. =Caernarvon=, pier-head; one fixed light; erected 1858.
375. =Bardsey Island=, lat. 52° 45´; one fixed light, visible
17 miles; square white tower, 99 feet high; erected 1821.
376. =Aberystwith=, pier-head, lat. 52° 25´; two fixed lights;
erected 1864.
377. [++]=Cardigan Bay= Lightship, lat. 52° 22´ 30´´; one
light, revolving every 30 seconds, and visible 9 miles; fixed
1860.
378. =South Bishop Rock=, lat. 51° 51´; revolving light, every
20 seconds; 36 feet high; erected 1839.
379. =Smalls Rock=, lat. 51° 43´ 20´´; one fixed light, visible
15 miles; circular tower, 141 feet high; erected 1778.
Bristol Channel—Nos. 380 to 414.
[380. =St. Ann’s Point=, Milford Haven, lat 51° 41´; two fixed
lights, high lighthouse, visible 20 miles; circular tower, 75
feet high; erected 1714; low lighthouse, visible 18 miles,
octagonal, 203 yards south-east of former, 42 feet high.
381. =New Quay=; one fixed light.
382_a_. =Milford Haven=, dockyard; two fixed lights, red; 46
feet and 23 feet high; erected 1862.
382_b_. [++]=Neyland Point= Lightship; one fixed light; erected
1868.
383. =Caldy Island=, lat. 51° 37´ 56´´; one fixed light,
visible 20 miles; circular tower, 52 feet high; erected 1829.
384. =Tenby=, pier-head; one fixed red light; erected 1856.
385. =Saundersfoot=, pier-head, lat. 51° 42´; one fixed red
light.
386. =Pembrey Harbour=, lat 51° 41´; one fixed light, visible 9
miles.
387. =Llanelly=, south end of breakwater, lat. 51° 40´; one
fixed light; 50 feet high; erected 1850.
388. §=Llanelly=, Whiteford Point; one fixed light, visible 7
miles; erected 1854.
389. [++]=Helwick= Lightship, lat 51° 31´; one light, revolving
every minute.
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