LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD.

Among the lightships to go in the 1950's were a couple of those at the mouth of Delaware Bay (Where the shoals are quick shifting and numerous)
The Delaware Bay light ships like the OVERFALLS shown below) were heavy bottomed because the bay would sand up and the lightship would bounce off the bottom because they would deploy them at the base of the shoals. (Joe Flogger and Hen and Chickens SHoqls are still pains in the ass to Bay pilots who are driving the tankers north to the refineries in Chester nd S Philly. They would "lighter " the tankers to give them a higher flotation . They keep special plimsol's corresponding to a Full and a Lightered tanker in both winter and summer waters.

OVERFALLS LIGHTSHIP



Its now a tourist visiting site in the Lewes Delaware Canal, just up stream from the U of Delaware Earth and Marine SCience Labs

We had had quite a few lightships ... and I've seen all but one when active on their positions

Elbe 1, Fehmarnbelt and Elbe 3 in Hamburg (2008) . Elbe 3 is stitioned in the museum harbour in Hamburg and used for cruises on the Elbe and through the Kiel canal to Kiel.

I've been on the Borkumriff (actually Borkumriff IV, last active lightship [1988] now as a museum-ship on the isle of Borkum): we helped them changing the crew in very bad weather, and I took the opportunity to have a tea (with rum) there ...

Located on the north side of the village of Den Hoorn (Texel island), Schulpengat Range Rear Light (The church tower is believed to date from about 1450.)



The light is on day and night, but during daylight it's somewhat irritating to use it as navigational aid or the church tower

Harderwijk Light (aka De Vischpoort Light), Gelderland, The Netherland


This lighthouse is also the town gate. The building dates back to the late 14th century, and it became a gate in 1592. The light is believed to have been discontinued sometime in the late 1950s, when the land reclamation program was started in the area of the Zuiderzee that became the southeastern Flevoland polder.

Elburg (Elborgh) light




Located at what was formerly the southeastern corner of the Zuider Zee. The octagonal spire rises from the north gate of the city. The lantern mounted on the north (left) side of the spire was added in 1731 to guide ships into the town's harbor. This light remained in service until 1989. The tower no longer faces the open Zuider Zee; now it faces the channel between the mainland and a large area of reclaimed land known as Oost Flevoland.

A few lighthouses are reportedly haunted and a few have pictures that show beings in the windows or along the walkways.
New London Connecticut is one such haunted lighthouse. The daughter of the lighthouse keeper fell off the slippery catwalk and drowned (or more likely was killed by the impct from the fall) .

Tillamook Rock Light. Oregon

damn, Somehow I got sent into BING and the pictures I get are poor quality, lotsa pixellation.
My other browser doesnt have a "properties" line

We've some "haunted lighthouse" in Europe, too, e.g. the Phare de Tévennec (Raz de Sein, Finistère, France)


Almost all the guards who were assigned to it went crazy.
It was first lit in 1875 and the first lighthouse keeper, Henri Guezennec, was said to have gone insane during his stay there. Twenty-three keepers manned it subsequently, but no one has dared live there since 1910.

And then, there's the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Mystery

Lighthouse certainly with its isolated living does not make life easy.
There are murders and ghosts at least if we believe the authours John Ajvide Lindqvist, Johan Theorin, Ann Rosman and Camilla Läckberg.
But the first one was P D James with the book "The Lighthouse" That was murder and no ghost.
The Swedish authors have murders and ghosts in their books.

The Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, Scotland, is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse.



The Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson (1772 - 1850) had proposed the construction of this lighthouse - he's the first of the so-called Lighthouse Stevensons: a "dynasty" who were famous for the construction of some 97 lighthouses around the coast of Scotland over a period of one hundred and fifty years.

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Talacre lighthouse, North Wales.

the remnants of "Doggerland" are still sinking below the sea . Has anyone estimated when Talacre will slip beneath the waves?
It would make an excellent tool for sea level rise.

The lighthouse is surrounded by water at high tide, but when the tide is low, you can easily reach it with dry feet.

Today, for instance
High at 3:13am (7.56m), Low 9:53am (3.19m);
High 15:40pm (7.70m), Low 22:30pm (3.04m)

The [UK's] National Oceanography Centre (NOC), is based on the Liverpool University campus, and the Ocean Sciences group of the University’s School of Environmental Sciences play important roles in this research, particularly with regard to sea level change.
They maintain a cute website Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) with data from nearby locations as well

Thanks walter. I can actually use some of tht. It also redirected me to some outside NOAA sites where I need tide gage readings.

Friends of mine moved to New Brunswick two months ago.

They can walk to Quaco Head Lighthouse from their property. They're pretty happy with the change in their lifestyle (and are posting tons of ocean and lighthouse pix - this is not one of their pix)

still nice.

Will you ask your friends if you can share some of the photos?