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
390. =Mumbles Island=, lat. 51° 34´ 3´´; one fixed light,
visible 15 miles; tower, 56 feet high; erected 1798.
391. =Swansea=, South Pier-head, lat. 51° 37´; one fixed light,
visible 5 miles; 20 feet high; erected 1803.
392. =Swansea=, South Dock entrance; two red lights; erected
1859.
393. =Swansea=, North Dock entrance; two fixed lights; erected
1860.
394. =Swansea=, New Cut bridge; one fixed light.
395. [++]=Scarweather= Lightship; one light, revolving every 20
seconds; fixed 1862.
396. =Porthcawl Harbour=, south-east end of breakwater; one
fixed light; erected 1860.
397. =Porthcawl Harbour=, north-west end of breakwater; two
fixed red lights; erected 1861.
398. =Nash Point=, lat. 51° 24´; high lighthouse, one fixed
light, visible 19 miles; 111 feet high: low lighthouse, one
fixed light, visible 17 miles; 60 feet high; erected 1832.
399. [++]=Breaksea= Lightship, lat. 51° 19´ 48´´; two lights,
one revolving with a flash every 15 seconds, one fixed; fixed
1866.
400. =Flatholm Island=, lat. 51° 22´; one fixed light, visible
18 miles; circular lighthouse, 99 feet high; erected 1737.
401. =Cardiff=, docks, lat. 51° 27´ 48´´; two fixed red lights.
402. =Usk=, Newport, lat. 51° 32´; one fixed light, visible 11
miles; tower, 57 feet high; erected 1867.
403. =Briton Ferry Dock=; movable tide lights.
404. [++]=English and Welsh Grounds= Lightship, lat. 51° 26´
30´´; one light, revolving every minute, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1838.
405. =Portskewet=, pier-head; one fixed red light; erected 1868.
406. =New Passage=, Charstone Rock; one fixed red light;
erected 1868.
407. =Avon=, east side of entrance, lat. 51° 30´; one fixed
light, visible 13 miles; octagonal tower, 85 feet high; erected
1840.
408. =Portishead=, pier; two fixed lights.
409. =Clevedon=, pier-head; one fixed light, visible 7 miles;
erected 1869.
410. =Bridgewater=, or Burnham, east side of entrance of Parret
River, lat. 51° 15´; two lights—upper, intermittent, visible
(15 miles) for 3½ minutes, then suddenly eclipsed ½ a minute;
lower light, fixed, visible 9 miles; high lighthouse, 99 feet
high; low lighthouse, 36 feet high; erected 1832.
411. =Watchet Harbour=; one fixed red light, visible 4 miles;
sexangular tower, 22 feet high; erected 1862.
412. =Ilfracombe=, Lantern Hill, lat. 51° 13´; one fixed light,
visible 10 miles; 29 feet high, _gas_.
413. =Bideford=, Braunton Sands, lat. 51° 4´; two fixed lights,
311 yards apart; 86 and 15 feet high; erected 1820.
414. =Lundy Island=, lat. 51° 10´ 7´´; two lights, upper
revolving every two minutes, the lower fixed, visible 31 miles;
tower, 96 feet high; erected 1820.]
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415. =Hartland Point=, lat. 51° 1´ 24´´; _lighthouse proposed_.
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