St. Ann's Head Lighthouse

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St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
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St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
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Wales
Location Milford Haven
Pembrokeshire
Wales
United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°40′52″N5°10′25″W / 51.681218°N 5.173675°W / 51.681218; -5.173675 Coordinates: 51°40′52″N5°10′25″W / 51.681218°N 5.173675°W / 51.681218; -5.173675
Year first constructed 1714 (first)
Year first lit 1844 (current)
Automated 1998
Construction masonry tower
Tower shape octagonal tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern white tower and lantern
Height 13 metres (43 ft)
Focal height 48 metres (157 ft)
Current lens 1st Order catadioptric
Intensity 48,700 candela
Range 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)
Characteristic Fl WR 5s.
Admiralty number A5284
NGA number 5608
ARLHS number WAL-027
Managing agent

Trinity House [1]

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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 St. Ann's Head near Dale in Pembrokeshire.

Lighthouse structure designed to emit light to aid navigation

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

Dale, Pembrokeshire Village in United Kingdom

Dale is a small village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales, located on the peninsula which forms the northern side of the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway. The village has 205 inhabitants according to the 2001 census, increasing to 225 at the 2011 Census.

Pembrokeshire County in Wales

Pembrokeshire is a county in the southwest of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and the sea everywhere else.

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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.

Skokholm Lighthouse lighthouse, Grade II listed building in Pembrokeshire, Wales; at the SW end of Skokholm Island

Skokholm Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Skokholm Island, just off the southwest coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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References

  1. St. Ann's Head 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