Wyre Light (Fleetwood)

53.95308 - 3.027127Koordinaten: 53 ° 57 '11 "N, 3 ° 1' 38 " W

Wyre Light is a decommissioned lighthouse in the Morecambe Bay before Fleetwood, Lancashire, England.

After the lighthouse on the Maplin Sands in the Thames Estuary, this was the second lighthouse, which the engineer Alexander Mitchell constructed. The lighthouse stands on the North Wharf Bank 3.7 km off the coast of Fleetwood. In the ever-changing background of the sandbar a konventieller lighthouse could not be built, so came here Mitchell's invention of the bolt carrier ( engl. Screw- pile ) are used, in which the carrier is screwed into the ground. The lighthouse stands on seven such supports, which were approximately 4 m (13 feet) sunk deep in the ground, wore a platform with the house of the lighthouse keeper, and the beacon. Construction began on November 15 in 1839 and taken to the Tower on 6 June 1840 in operation. The beacon was damaged in a fire in 1948, the tower was unmanned and then in 1979 replaced by a light buoy. The beacon was here at the entrance to the ride trough the mouth of the Wyre and is supported by the two lighthouses Beach Lighthouse and Pharos Lighthouse on the mainland in Fleetwood. The light of the two lighthouses located on land shows, if there is exactly one above the other is up to a distance of 22 km from the coast, the position of the Wyre Light on.

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  • Alexander Mitchell (1780 - 1868) Belfast 's blind engineer on History Ireland.
  • F. J. Bigger, Alexander Mitchell, the famous blind engineer of Belfast, Belfast, in 1907.
  • Alan J. Lutenegger, Historical development of iron screw- pile foundations, 1836-1900 In: International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology ( Newcomen Society ) 81, January 2011, p.108 - 28th
  • Lighthouse in England
  • Building in Lancashire
  • Built in the 1840s
  • Lighthouse in Europe
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