LIGHTHOUSES OF THE WORLD.

This isn't the topic but since some enthusiast are here ... I like to plot ... ships.

The port of Hamburg some minutes ago ... via this (free) website (service)




My favourit is Vesseltracker - you have to register for the free, basic service. Both sites (especially vesseltracker) offer a lot of options - and vesseltracker is from Hamburg

walter :

i'm retired !
don't expect me to report for work in the harbour at 7 a.m. !!!

does that web site only track ships in Germany?

farmerman :

go to : http://www.vesseltracker.com/app

and you should be able to roam - just don't complain about wasting time !

OOOH OOOOH< THis is cool, I need a transponder and a call sign. A2k can track me on my summer sojourns.!!

HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSES OF MAINE

10 mi from Boothbay HArbor is the SEGUIN ISLAND LIGHT. The keeper of the light bought a piano for his wife to play but unfortunately , since she only played by reading music, she had but one tune that came with the piano. This tune she played over and over till it drove her husband, the lighthouse keeper remember, NUTS. SO he took an axe and choppe up the piano and his wife, then he shot himself. To this day, on te KEnnebec, we can hear the faint sounds of piano music in the early dawn.

MWAAAH HA HA HAAAAA

The Wicklow Light in Wicklow County Ireland. I drank a beer here . I was living in Kildare at the time, working for Dublin County. The beach areas had ample fossils and hunks of jasper.

Barnegat Light, Long Beach Island, New Jersey

Nice place, Joe!

I have to do a better job of tending this thread since there are a lot of Farophylliacs out here.

These towers are quite common on the NJ and Delaware shores. THey are Fire Control Towers and were used to aim guns of the WWII shore batteries that were installed with the paranoia that AMerica would be attacked by a beach landing of German Troops and fire from battleships. There were several 16 inch guns in the batteries (now removed and the concrete pads are the only things remaining. The towers have been left and are now tourist attractions. Several towers are open for observation and have permanent spotting scopes installed for ship and whale watching.

lighthouse in the thousand islands , ontario , st. lawrence river .

nother Ontario lighthouse on MAnitoulin Island

A recent article in http://www.thousandislandslife.com/CurrentIssue.aspx

by an occasional A2k'er ...

Wolfe Island’s Lighthouses

Sometime this or next week, I'll make my first trip to Roosevelt Island to snap some personal photographs of my own of the island's lighthouse.

That Chessie lighthouse residence is a common sight down on the Eastern shore also. Several homes with that style have been erected. One guy actually tried putting a light on his and he was told not to do that because adding a light where theres no Chart reference can actually be dangerous to boaters and shipping. He went all "1st Amendment" and so the State of MAryland and Virginia fined the guy for several days straight under some really arcane and ancient law that stated that moving any navigation beacon swo as to create a hazrd , will be punishable by a fine, where each day constitutes a separate offense.

Step. can you get a picture of the boat that plies back and Forth from Roosevelt Island to the BAttery? It, as I recall, is kind of an old fashioned looking ferry boat.

Williamstown/Point Gellibrand Light.
(Melbourne Australia)



History
The original lighthouse was constructed in 1840, right on the point of Gellibrand's Point. It is most likely Victoria's first navigational aid of any distinction, though an unlit beacon had been on the site since 1835. It also may have been the first harbour light of its kind in Australia.

In 1853, a Mr R. L. J. Ellery, the first Government Astronomer, commenced determining accurate local mean time, and established a time ball so that shipmasters to correct their chronometers "at the fall of the ball" at exactly one o'clock each day.

By 1934 the time ball had been removed. In this year the bluestone tower was extended by 30 feet with a circular brick tower on top. The extension was then painted with a coat of aluminium paint.


Between 1987 and 1989, the brick extension was demolished and a functional new replica time ball mechanism was reinstalled restored by the Point Gellibrand Rotary Club to commemorate the history of the site. This was officially opened in 1990.
The tower today is operated by a computer, which drops the ball each day at 1pm as it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is the lighthouse at the Mississaugi Strait that dj posted on page one I think, farmerman.

There is also a fog horn building. It's now used as a restaurant:



When hydro was put in in 1970 the light was automated and the land leased. It is now leased by the Manitoulin Tourism Association. At some point the light was installed on a sort of pole with a red and white striped bottom (I'm sure you know what I mean, can't seem to find a photo) and the lighthouse was used as a museum. Later funds were raised to return the light to the lighthouse.

The surrounding land is used as a small camping park. It is wonderfully isolated with lots of wildlife and great salmon fishing. If you like watching lakers you can see them at all hours heading for a nearby gravel quarry (very dramatic all lit up at night).

Great story behind that oned Dad. I like the raising the ball concept.