Year first lit 1844 (current) Construction masonry tower Opened 1841 Focal height 48 m Year first constructed 1714 (first) | Automated 1998 Height 13 m Range 33,336 m NGA number 5608 | |
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Location Milford Haven
Pembrokeshire
Wales
United Kingdom Tower shape octagonal prism tower with balcony and lantern Markings / pattern white tower and lantern Similar Skokholm Lighthouse, St Tudwal’s Lighthouse, South Bishop Lighthouse, Hilbre Island Lighthouse, Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse | ||
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.
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.
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