Phare de Port-Navalo
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| Place: | Port-Navalo , France | |
| Location: | Morbihan , Brittany , France | |
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| Height of tower base: | 17.4 m | |
| Fire carrier height : | 14.4 m | |
| Fire height : | 31.8 m | |
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| Identifier : | red, green, white in sectors | |
| Scope knows: | 14.4 nm (26.7 km ) | |
| Operating mode: | Halogen 180 W, 90 W halogen as protection | |
| Function: | Orientation fire | |
| Operating time: | 1891 | |
Phare de Port-Navalo is the name of a lighthouse on the Rhuys Peninsula in the port of Port-Navalo , which belongs to the French commune of Arzon in the Morbihan department . Opposite the Pointe de Kerpenhir in the municipality of Locmariaquer , it marks the entrance to the Gulf of Morbihan . It has a range of approximately 14.4 nautical miles .
Alignment
Together with the Teignouse lighthouse, it illuminates the shipping route from the passage between the Quiberon peninsula and the islands of Houat and Hœdic to the entrance to the Gulf of Morbihan . How dangerous the passage is is shown by the accident of the large liner France , which ran onto a rock on August 26, 1922 and then sank. The remnants of the France are only 0.5 nautical miles from Teignouse ( 47 ° 27 ′ 6.9 ″ N , 3 ° 2 ′ 13.8 ″ W ).
history
The small tower right next to the house was built in 1840 and was Port-Navalo's first lighthouse. It was equipped with a fixed, white light and is approx. 10 m high.
The current cylindrical, 19 m high lighthouse was put into operation in 1895. During the Second World War the optics were dismantled on April 14, 1942. In 1944 it narrowly escaped a planned demolition.
