Wolf Rock Lighthouse
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Wolf Rock Lighthouse is on the Wolf Rock, a single rock located 18 nautical miles east of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly and 8 nautical miles southwest of Land's End, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
Phare de Wolf Rock 2
Engineering drawing of the 1869 optic and sectional view of it within the lantern, alongside a chart showing location in relation to other lights.
Wolf Rock Lighthouse in 1875
Wolf Rock Beacon, 1884, by E. Price Edwards
Trinity House
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Trinity House, founded by Royal Charter in 1514, is the general lighthouse authority for England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and Gibraltar. It maintains navigational aids such as lightvessels and buo
Wolf Rock Lighthouse
…of Milford Haven was wrecked on the Wolf Rock in 1394. Her cargo, worth £1000, was washed ashore in Cornwall and collected as wreck. In 1790, the Corporation of Trinity House received a patent of the Crown to build a lighthouse on Wolf Rock. The rights were leased to a Lt. Henry Smith; but (such were the technical challenges…
Trinity House headquarters, Tower Hill, London, built in 1796.
The John Sebastian, Trinity House L.V. No 55 (1886 built as a batch order of three, LV54, LV55 and LV59) in Bathurst Basin, Bristol
A meeting at Trinity House c. 1808
Churchill in his Trinity House uniform at the Atlantic Conference