Farol da Ponta da Ferraria

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Farol da Ponta da Ferraria
Farol da Ponta da Ferraria, Ponta Delgada, ilha de São Miguel, Açores.JPG
Place: Ginetes , Sao Miguel , Azores
Location: on a steep face
Geographical location: 37 ° 51 '12.3 "  N , 25 ° 51' 1.3"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 51 '12.3 "  N , 25 ° 51' 1.3"  W.
Fire carrier height : 18 m
Fire height : 107 m
Farol da Ponta da Ferraria (Azores)
Farol da Ponta da Ferraria
Identifier : Fl. (3) W.20s
Scope knows: 27 nm (50 km )
Optics: Third order Fresnel lens , 500 mm
Operating mode: electric
Function: Sea fire
Operating time: since November 9, 1901
International ordinal number: D-2655

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The Farol da Ponta da Ferraria is a lighthouse on Cape Ponta da Ferraria in the west of the Azores island of São Miguel . It is in the parish of Ginetes . The lighthouse is registered under the international number D-2655 and the national number 719. It irradiates a sector from 339 ° to 174 ° and has a range of 27  nautical miles .

History and design

The general plan for lighting the Portuguese coasts of 1883, which also took the Azores into account, provided for the construction of a lighthouse on the Ponta da Ferraria . The original plan to build a second-order lighthouse with a range of 25.5 nautical miles was changed in 1891. It was now believed that a third-order lighthouse with a range of 15 to 20 nautical miles would be sufficient. The implementation of the project dragged on until 1901. It finally started operations on November 9th. In 1957 the lighthouse was converted to electrical operation and received a 3000 W incandescent lamp. With the connection to the public power grid, the output was reduced to 1000 W.

The square tower is embedded in the main facade of a two-story, rectangular brick building, at the rear of which there are two one-story extensions. The entire building, which is inhabited by the lighthouse keeper's family, is plastered and whitewashed. Its two floors are visually separated by a surrounding cornice . The building is covered with red roof tiles. The dome of the tower is painted red and has a weather vane . A low white wall surrounds the property.

See also

Web links

Commons : Farol da Ponta da Ferraria  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c List of Lights, Radio Aids and Fog Signals. Pub. 113: The West Coasts of Europe and Africa, The Mediterranian Sea, Black Sea and Azovskoye More (Sea of ​​Azov) (PDF; 3.3 MB), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, Virginia, 2014, p. 411 (English )
  2. ↑ Faróis de Portugal on the website of the Associação Nacional de Cruzeiros, accessed on September 3, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b Farol da Ponta da Ferraria ( Memento from August 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Faróis de Portugal, (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Farol da Ferraria on the website of the Portuguese Information System for Architectural Heritage (Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico, SIPA), accessed April 8, 2014 (Portuguese)
The lighthouse seen from the sea side