Day identifier
The day identifier is the external appearance of a lighthouse during the day and enables shipping to clearly identify this landmark for orientation.
In the dark, on the other hand, each tower has its own light identification of different colors (red, green and white or yellow) as well as different lighting duration and lighting frequency.
Examples
One example of a striking day identifier is the Kampen lighthouse on Sylt . The 41.80 m high, red brick lighthouse Amrum with its two white ribbons, a landmark of the North Frisian island of Amrum, can be seen from afar . The Schleimünde lighthouse holds a special record from 1890 to the present day: no other lighthouse changed its daytime identifier as often as it did. First yellow, then dark gray, then yellow again, then light gray and then diced red / white like a checkerboard, then diced black / white, it now has the day identifier white with a green band after white with black band.
literature
- Gudrun Wolfschmidt : Navigare necesse est - History of Navigation , Page 324, Books on Demand, ISBN 978-3-8370-3260-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beacon Pages , accessed on January 22, 2013
- ↑ Rotes Kliff lighthouse , accessed on January 22, 2013
- ↑ Lighthouse Amrum on wsv.de, accessed on January 22, 2013
- ↑ Tagging of the Schleimünde beacon on wsa-hl.wsv.de, accessed on December 9, 2018