tapered cylindrical tower with lantern and helipad on the top
Markings
unpainted tower, white lantern
Operator
Trinity House[1]
Fog signal
one second blast every 10 seconds
Light
First lit
1875 (current)
Focal height
35 m (115 ft)
Lens
First Order Dioptric
Intensity
14,400 Candela
Range
15 nmi (28 km; 17 mi)
Characteristic
Fl (2) WR 10s.
Longships Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse about 1.25 mi (2.0 km) off the coast of Land's End in Cornwall, England. It is the second lighthouse to be built on Carn Bras, the highest of the Longships islets which rises 39 feet (12 m) above high water level. In 1988 the lighthouse was automated, and the keepers withdrawn. It is now remotely monitored from the Trinity House Operations & Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.[2]
^Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Southwest England (Devon and Cornwall)". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
^"Longships Lighthouse". Lighthouses and lightvessels. Trinity House. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
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