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Phare du Portzic

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Construction
  
granite tower

Light source
  
mains power

Opened
  
1848

NGA number
  
0160

Focal height
  
56 metres (184 ft)

Height
  
35 m

Automated
  
1984

Year first constructed
  
1848

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Location
  
Goulet de Brest Finistère France

Tower shape
  
octagonal prism tower with balcony and lantern

Markings / pattern
  
unpainted tower, red lantern

Similar
  
Phare du Petit Minou, Saint‑Mathieu lighthouse, Pointe des Espagnols, Phare du Trezien, Phare du Stiff

The phare du Portzic is situated on the north-eastern extremity of the Goulet de Brest (Finistère, France) and is the nearest lighthouse to the town of Brest. It was inscribed as a monument historique before 1987. On the seaward side of the bottleneck entrance to the goulet, the lighthouse faces the Pointe des Espagnols.

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Map of Portzic, 29200 Brest, France

It was built on military land in 1848, at the same time as the phare du Petit Minou (started slightly earlier to the north of the Goulet. It was electrified in 1953 and automated in 1984 (though a semaphore post set up at its base in 1987 to regulate traffic in and out of the goulet is still permanently manned).

Characteristics

  • Signals : 1 main light for the sector with 2 flashes every 10 seconds (2 second flash then 6 second flash), accompanied by 2 twinkling directional lights in the direction of the Goulet, one continuous (one flash per second, known as the North signal, indicates to a navigator that he finds himself to the north of the channel), the other with 6 short flashes (one per second) and a long flash, known as the South signal, indicating to the nvaigator that he finds himself to the south of the channel.

    • References

    Phare du Portzic Wikipedia
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