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
442. =Taskar Rock=, lat. 52° 12´ 9´´; light revolving every
2 minutes, visible 15 miles; circular tower, 110 feet high;
erected 1815.
443. [++]=Lucifer Shoals= Lightship, lat. 52° 21´ 30´´; one
fixed light, visible 8 miles; fixed 1868.
444. [++]=Blackwater Bank= Lightship, lat. 52° 30´ 10´´; one
fixed light, visible 10 miles; fixed 1857.
445. [++]=Arklow= Lightship, lat. 52° 40´ 45´´; revolving every
minute, visible 10 miles; fixed 1834.
446. [++]=Arklow= Lightship, lat. 52° 53´; two fixed lights,
visible 10 and 8 miles; fixed 1867.
447. =Wicklow Head=, lat. 52° 57´ 50´´; intermittent light,
10 seconds bright and dark 3, visible 16 miles; tower 46 feet
high; erected 1818, altered 1867.
448. [++]=Codling Bank= Lightship, lat. 53° 4´ 40´´; revolving
every 20 seconds, visible 9 miles; fixed 1867.
Dublin Bay—Nos. 449 to 456.
[449. [++]=Kish= Lightship, lat. 53° 18´ 48´´; revolving every
minute, visible 10 miles; fixed 1811. [“In foggy weather a
_gong_ is sounded, and a gun fired with two discharges in quick
succession, commencing at 5 P.M. and at 6 P.M., and continued
every fifteen minutes until the mail packets due from Holyhead
have fired a gun in reply, when a signal gun from lightship is
fired in answer.”]
450. =Kingstown=, East Pier-head, lat. 53° 18´; revolving every
30 seconds, visible 9 miles; lighthouse, 41 feet high; erected
1822.
451. =Kingstown=, West Pier-head; one fixed light; granite
tower, 29 feet high; erected 1845.
452. =Poolbeg=, south wall, lat. 53° 20´ 30´´; two fixed
lights, visible 12 miles, one upper and one lower; lighthouse,
63 feet high; erected 1768.
453. =Poolbeg=, north wall, lat. 53° 21´; one fixed light,
visible 10 miles; iron tower, 28 feet high; erected 1820.
454. =Poolbeg=, one fixed light; erected 1861. (No particulars
given.)
455. =Bailey=, south-east point Howth peninsula, lat. 53° 21´
40´´; one fixed light, visible 15 miles; 42 feet high; erected
1671.
456. =Howth=, pier-head, lat. 53° 24´; one fixed light, visible
11 miles; 37 feet high; erected 1818.]
* * * * *
457. =Balbriggan=, pier, lat. 53° 36´ 45´´; one fixed light,
visible 10 miles; 53 feet high; erected 1769.
458. =Rockabill=, lat. 53° 35´ 45´´; one light, flashes every
12 seconds, visible 18 miles; circular gray stone lighthouse,
105 feet high; erected 1860.
459. =Drogheda=, sand hills, lat. 53° 43´; three fixed lights,
visible 6 to 7 miles; on timber framework, 30 feet high;
erected 1842.
460. §=Dundalk=, entrance of channel, lat. 53° 58´ 40´´;
flashes every 15 seconds, visible 9 miles; erected 1855.
461. =Dundalk=; two fixed lights; erected 1861. (No particulars
given.)
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