Brittany's Lighthouses in FS2004

Le Kéréon, Ar-Men, le Stiff, la Jument, le Nividic, le Créac'h, le Four, la Vieille et sa compagne la tourelle de la Plate and the Cross Corsen radar tower at Ouessant. All these lighthouses recreated for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. Check final credits for details or my blog site http://20-100-video.blogspot.com

Northern Lighthouses

Film of my trip today to the Lighthouses of the most Northern and Northeasterly points of the mainland UK:

Dunnet Head, Nr Thurso, Duncansby Head Nr John O Groats with views of Muckle Skerry ( Pentland Skerries) and Stroma Island Lighthouses.

The NLB was formed in 1786 as the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses by Act of Parliament, to oversee the construction and operation of four Scottish lighthouses; Kinnaird Head, North Ronaldsay, Scalpay and Mull of Kintyre. The Commissioners' most famous engineer was Robert Stevenson, whose sons David, Alan, and Thomas followed their father into the profession. The Stevenson dynasty built the majority of the Northern lights, in some exceptionally challenging locations. Their lights were some of the engineering masterpieces of their time, notably those at Bell Rock, Skerryvore and Muckle Flugga.

Between 1876 and 2005 the NLB also maintained foghorns at a number of locations. The last (at Skerryvore) was sounded for the last time on 4 October 2005.

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The Light Of Life

The Light Of Life, another work featuring lighthouses to convey that Jesus is our Life Light. He will guide us with His unfailing love and grant us eternal life in Him.

music: Anywhere is by Enya, The Memory Of Trees CD by Reprise

And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

Genesis 1:3

God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:4

God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night."

Genesis 1:5

Jesus said: i have come into the world as a light,

So that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness.

John 12:46

When Jesus spoke again to the people, He said,

I Am The Light Of The World,

Whoever Follows Me,

Will Never Walk In Darkness,

But Will Have The...

Light Of Life

John 8:12

Your sun will never set again,

And your moon will wane no more,

The LORD will be your everlasting light,

And your days of sorrow will end.

Isaiah 60:20

For You have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling,

That I may walk before God in The Light Of Life

Psalm 56:13

Split Rock Lighthouse

Coordinates WGS-84 (GPS) 47.20005°N -91.3669°E

Split Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse located just south of Silver Bay, Minnesota, USA on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The structure was designed by lighthouse engineer Ralph Russell Tinkham and was completed in 1910 by the United States Lighthouse Service at a cost of $75,000, including the buildings and the land. It is built on a 130-foot (40 m) sheer cliff of anorthosite.

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The lighthouse was first lit on July 31, 1910. It was built in response to the loss of ships during the famous Mataafa Storm of 1905, in which 29 ships were lost on Lake Superior. One of these shipwrecks, the Madeira, is located just north of the lighthouse. Compare, Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The tower of the lighthouse is hexagonal and constructed of brick, reinforced with a steel skeleton. It is topped with a steel lantern. The lighthouse features a large third order, bi-valve type Fresnel lens (pronounced [freɪ'nel]) manufactured by Barbier, Bernard and Turenne Company in Paris, France. The lens floats on a bearing surface of liquid mercury.

Originally, the lens was rotated by an elaborate clockwork mechanism that was powered by counterweights running down the center of the tower. When completed, the lighthouse was lighted with an incandescent oil vapor lamp that burned kerosene. In 1940, the station was electrified and the lamp was replaced with a 1000 watt electric bulb.

Split Rock Lighthouse was built in 1910 in Two Harbors, Minnesota on Lake Superior. It was accessible only by water until 1924 when the North Shore highway was built. The lighthouse closed in 1969, but has been meticulously restored to its pre-1924 appearance and is currently a popular tourist attraction.
Stamp Information
This stamp was issued by the United States Postal Service on June 17, 1995 as part of the Great Lakes Lighthouses Issue series.

Split Rock was also outfitted with a fog signal housed in a building next to the light tower. The original signal was a pair of steam sirens driven by two Franklin 30 hp (22 kW) gasoline-driven air compressors manufactured by Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company. In 1932 the gasoline engines were replaced with diesel engines. The steam sirens were replaced with a Type F-2-T diaphone (be-you) type signal in 1936. When the station was electrified four years later, the fog signal began to be powered by electricity. The fog signal was discontinued in 1961. The light was retired in 1969 by the U. S. Coast Guard. The lighthouse is now part of the Split Rock Lighthouse State Park and is operated by the Minnesota Historical Society. The site includes the original tower and lens, the fog signal building, the oil house, and the three keepers' houses. It is restored to appear as it did in the late 1920s. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Notwithstanding that the light has been retired, every November 10 the lighthouse emits a light in memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald which sank on that date in 1975. Split Rock Lighthouse was one of five lighthouses chosen for the "Lighthouses of the Great Lakes" series postage stamp designed by Howard Koslow in 1995. There was one lighthouse chosen on each of the Great Lakes. The five lighthouses are Split Rock Light on Lake Superior, St Joseph Light on Lake Michigan, Spectacle Reef Light on Lake Huron, Marblehead Light (Ohio) on Lake Erie and Thirty Mile Point Light on Lake Ontario.

Spiral stairs leading to the lantern deck at Split Rock lighthouse Copyright photograph by Terry Pepper, September 1999

Minnesota Historical Society - Split Rock
3713 Split Rock Lighthouse Rd.
Two Harbors, MN 55616
(218) 226-6372

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Lighthouse Point, Santa Cruz

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Point Santa Cruz Lighthouse

The current working brick lighthouse was erected as a memorial to Mark Abbott, a surfer who drowned nearby in 1965. The lighthouse was built by his parents in 1967, and houses a surfing museum. The lantern room is from the 1903 Oakland Harbor Lighthouse.

The original lighthouse was erected on Point Santa Cruz in 1869. In 1878, the lighthouse was moved inland about 300 feet due to gradual erosion of caves underneath the point. During the 1940's the lighthouse was replaced by an automated wooden tower and the original structure was razed for salvage.

Location: Santa Cruz, CA
Photographer: Ron Karpel
Email: ronny@karpel.org
Phone: 415-987-5109
Date: December 7, 2003
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