Longships Lighthouse
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| Place: | Carn Bras, Longships islets | |
| Location: | off the coast of Land's End in Cornwall | |
| Geographical location: | 50 ° 4 '0.7 " N , 5 ° 44' 48.4" W | |
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| Construction time: | 1795, 1869-1873 | |
| Operating time: | since 1795 | |
Longships Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the island of Carn Bras, which belongs to the Longships archipelago , which is about 2 km west of the coast of Land's End in Cornwall England and forms the westernmost point of Cornwall. The lighthouse is still in operation today.
It is the second lighthouse on Carn Bras, the island is with a height of 12 m above sea level the highest island in this group of islands. The first lighthouse with a lamp height of 24 m above sea level was built in 1795, the architect was Samuel Wyatt from Trinity House . At very high seas, the spray disrupted its function.
In 1869 the tower was replaced by a new building made of granite, using the same equipment as the Wolf Rock Lighthouse was built with. The engineer James Douglas from Trinity House was responsible. The new building has a tower height and a beacon height of 35 m and went into operation in December 1873. In 1988 the lighthouse was automated and is looked after by the Trinity House Operations & Planning Center in Harwich .
William Turner painted the picture with the name "Longships Lighthouse, Land's End" around 1834,1835 which is now in the holdings of the Getty Museum .
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- Longships Lighthouse , Trinity House Operations & Planning Center
- Longships Lighthouse Cornwall guide
- Longships Lighthouse accessed January 2, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Longships Lighthouse , accessed January 2, 2019.
- ^ Longships Lighthouse . Trinity House. Retrieved January 2, 2019.