Beacon at the seaman's yard
| Beacon at the seaman's yard | ||
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| Place: | Hamburg-Waltershof | |
| Location: | Seemannshöft, Köhlfleet estuary | |
| Geographical location: | 53 ° 32 '24.1 " N , 9 ° 52' 42.4" E | |
| Fire carrier height : | 5 | |
| Fire height : | 9 | |
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| Identifier : | Fl (2) R. 5.5 s Bell (1) 9 s |
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| Scope red: | 3 nm (5.6 km ) | |
| Optics: | Sea lantern with belt lens | |
| Operating mode: | electric | |
| Function: | Entrance fire | |
| International ordinal number: | B 1578 | |
The Seemannshöft beacon with the international number B 1578 is an entrance light in the port of Hamburg at the mouth of the Köhlfleet in the Elbe .
location
The beacon is on the east side of the Köhlfleet estuary at the end of the Seemannshöft, right next to the Seemannshöft pilot house . The Köhlfleet is a navigable tributary (→ Fleet ) of the Elbe. The Seemannshöft is the tip of a narrow headland in the northwest of the Hamburg district Waltershof between the Köhlfleet and the Elbe main stream.
construction
The fire carrier is a red lattice beacon with platform, railing and outer ladder. The beacon stands on a square concrete foundation five meters above the level of the ground. On the platform there is an open “optic” at a height of nine meters above the mean flood (MHW), next to the platform a fog bell. The Seemannshöft beacon is the only beacon in the Port of Hamburg that is equipped with a fog signal.
Identifier
The beacon has the identifier Fl (2) R. 5.5 s, Bell (1) 9 s. The red lightning bolt with a group of two lightning bolts has a return of 5.5 seconds and a nominal range of 3 nautical miles . The flashes are 0.7 seconds long with an interruption of 1.3 seconds and a pause of 2.8 seconds. If visibility is poor, a bell will sound every 9 seconds.
Web links
supporting documents
The information in this article is taken from
- Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Ed.): Beacon Directory Part 3, Eastern North Sea . Hamburg and Rostock 2009, ISBN 3-89871-132-3 , p. 71, no. 11770
- Birgit Toussaint, Frank Toussaint, Matthias Hünsch: German beacons. All the lighthouses on our coasts . 1st edition, Edition Maritim GmbH Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-89871-922-3 , pp. 95, 97