St Ann's Head Lighthouse

St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
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	St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
Location	Milford Haven; Pembrokeshire; Wales; United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°40′52″N 5°10′25″W / 51.681218°N 5.173675°WCoordinates: 51°40′52″N 5°10′25″W / 51.681218°N 5.173675°W
Tower
Constructed	1714 (first)
Construction	masonry tower
Height	13 metres (43 ft)
Shape	octagonal tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower and lantern
Operator	Trinity House
Light
First lit	1844 (current)
Automated	1998
Deactivated	1910
Focal height	48 metres (157 ft)
Lens	1st Order catadioptric
Intensity	48,700 candela
Range	18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)
Characteristic	Fl WR 5s.

St. Ann's Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse that overlooks the entrance to the Milford Haven waterway, one of Britain's deep water harbours, from near Dale in Pembrokeshire.

The lighthouse is intended to guide ships around a number of rocky shoals that cause a hazard to shipping entering the Haven as well as Crow's rock. The current lighthouse was completed in 1844 (at which time it was known as "St. Ann's Low Light") and commissioned by John Knott, senior lighthouse keeper with Trinity House. The first lighthouse on this site was built in 1714.

The present operational tower is 13 metres (43 ft) in height and is painted white. Visible is Skokholm Lighthouse on the small island of Skokholm 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the west.

References[]

^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Wales". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
^ St. Ann's Head Lighthouse Trinity House. Retrieved 2 June 2016

External links[]

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[1] Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Wales". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2 June 2016.

[2] St. Ann's Head Lighthouse Trinity House. Retrieved 2 June 2016

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v t Lighthouses of Trinity House
England	Anvil Point Bamburgh Beachy Head Berry Head Bishop Rock Bull Point Coquet Cromer Crow Point Dungeness Eddystone Farne Flamborough Godrevy Guile Point East Hartland Point Heugh Hill Hilbre Island Hurst Point Lizard Longships Longstone Lowestoft Lundy North Lundy South Lynmouth Foreland Nab Tower Needles North Foreland Pendeen Peninnis Portland Bill Round Island Royal Sovereign St Anthony's St Bees St Catherine's Southwold Start Point Tater Du Trevose Head Whitby Wolf Rock
Wales	Bardsey Caldey Island Flatholm Holyhead Monkstone Mumbles Nash Point Point Lynas St Ann's Head St Tudwal's Skerries Skokholm Smalls South Bishop South Stack Strumble Head Trwyn Du
Channel Islands & Gibraltar	Alderney Casquets Europa Point Les Hanois Sark

Tower
St. Ann's Head Lighthouse

Location	Milford Haven Pembrokeshire Wales United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°40′52″N 5°10′25″W / 51.681218°N 5.173675°W / 51.681218; -5.173675Coordinates: 51°40′52″N 5°10′25″W / 51.681218°N 5.173675°W / 51.681218; -5.173675
Constructed	1714 (first) 1841
Construction	masonry tower
Height	13 metres (43 ft)
Shape	octagonal tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower and lantern
Operator	Trinity House^[1] ^[2]

Light
First lit	1844 (current)
Automated	1998
Deactivated	1910
Focal height	48 metres (157 ft)
Lens	1st Order catadioptric
Intensity	48,700 candela
Range	18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)
Characteristic	Fl WR 5s. Fl WR 5s

St Ann's Head Lighthouse

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