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    Wolf Rock Lighthouse is on the Wolf Rock (Cornish: An Welv, meaning the lip), a single rock located 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi) east of St Mary's...
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    owners for a lighthouse to be built on one of the rocks off Land's End. In 1790 John Smeaton surveyed the area, and recommended either Wolf Rock or the Longships...
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    Tillamook Rock Light (known locally as Terrible Tilly or just Tilly) is a deactivated lighthouse on the northern Oregon Coast of the United States. It...
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  • (1346751)". National Heritage List for England. "Wolf Rock Lighthouse". Trinity House. "History". Belle Tout Lighthouse. Historic England. "Details from listed...
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    William Douglass (engineer, born 1831) (category Lighthouse builders)
    : ch12  Les Hanois Lighthouse 1859–1863 Wolf Rock Lighthouse 1863–1869 Great Basses Reef Lighthouse 1869–1873 Little Basses Reef Lighthouse 1874–1878 Ireland...
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    Ar Men (redirect from Ar Men Lighthouse)
    ("the rock" in Breton) is a lighthouse at one end of the Chaussée de l'Île de Sein, at the west end of Brittany. It shares its name with the rock on which...
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    Wolf Trap Light is a caisson lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, about seven and a half miles northeast of New Point Comfort Light...
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  • Retrieved 8 July 2023. Voychenko, Mikhail. "Ro-ro drifted onto Wolf Rock Lighthouse, Cornwall UK". Fleetmon. Retrieved 10 July 2023. "Tanker grounding...
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    was also used locally to build the Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Mousehole north pier and the Wolf Rock Lighthouse. Granite was dragged by chains to an iron...
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    ketch Replete ( United Kingdom) caught fire while trawling off the Wolf Rock lighthouse. Crew picked up by the Brixham smack Radiance which was fishing nearby...
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  • nicknames were later coined because of the structure's shape. Wolf Trap Light a caisson lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay Butler Flats Light stands in open water...
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    The Lighthouse and the Whaler is an American band from Cleveland, Ohio. Originally a folk rock trio, they eventually became a rock quartet. The group's...
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    competitions across the UK. He helped build the Eddystone Lighthouse and the Wolf Rock Lighthouse. Captain Samuel Coombe (1849-?), from Bugle, known as "Sammy"...
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    marked by lights and beacons, Trinity House built a lighthouse on the Longships, and beacons on Wolf Rock and the Rundlestone. The latter, a bare wrought...
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    Hanois Lighthouse was constructed between 1860 and 1862 to a design by James Walker, and was first lit on 8 December 1862. It is sited on the rock known...
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    Light, Isles of Scilly St. Anthony's Lighthouse Tater Du Lighthouse Trevose Head Lighthouse Wolf Rock Lighthouse Literature in Cornish Cornish novels...
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    Sopwith 'The Dressing of Lead Ores' James Nicholas Douglass 'The Wolf Rock Lighthouse' Bernhard Samuelson 'On the Construction of Blast Furnaces' 1869–1870...
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  • then travelled south of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, completed a lap of the Isles of Scilly, passed to the south of the lighthouse again, before finally returning...
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    The Cape Henry Lighthouses are a pair of lighthouses at Cape Henry, the landform marking the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. state of...
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  • No Protection (Starship album) (category Albums produced by Peter Wolf (producer))
    direction Jeff Katz – photographer Lisa Marie Avila – make up Recorded at Lighthouse Studios, Goodnight L. A., Tarpan Studios, Soundcastle Recording Studio...
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  • site of the yard where Trinity House prepared the granite for the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, which was first lit in January 1880. The two-storey former depot...
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  • Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) south west by south of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse (49°40′N 6°10′W / 49.667°N 6.167°W / 49.667; -6.167) by SM U-41...
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  • two weeks". BBC News. Douglass, James (17 February 1871). "On the Wolf Rock Lighthouse". Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the...
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    James Nicholas Douglass (category Lighthouse builders)
    Douglass immediately went on to supervise the construction of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, designed by James Walker, and was appointed as Engineer-in-Chief...
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  • Chesapeake Chapter U.S.L.H.S. Retrieved October 19, 2017. "Wolf Trap Lighthouse". Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved October 19, 2017. "York Spit". Chesapeake...
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    islands, but rather a sandspit. It is the southern point of Wide Bay. Wolf Rock is a set of four volcanic pinnacles off Double Island Point. There is...
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  •  31722. London. 1 April 1886. col F, p. 6. "Foundering Of A Steamer Off The Wolf". The Cornishman. No. 380. 29 October 1885. p. 5. "Latest Shipping Intelligence"...
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    Fresnel lens (category Lighthouse fixtures)
    Makes a Better Lighthouse Lens", Smithsonian, vol. 30 no. 5 (August 1999), pp 30–31. Buchwald, 1989, pp. 260, 288–290, 297; cf. Born & Wolf, 1999, p. xxviii...
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    (43 m) lighthouse located on the southern end of Assateague Island off the coast of the Virginia Eastern Shore, United States. The lighthouse is located...
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    The Bells Rock Light was a lighthouse located in the York River in Virginia. In the nineteenth century, West Point, Virginia was the head of navigation...
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