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Daymark
A daymark is a navigational aid for sailors and pilots, distinctively marked to maximize its visibility in daylight. The word is also used in a more specific, technical sense to refer to a signboard or daytime identifier that is attached to a day beacon or other aid to navigation. In that sense, a daymark conveys to the mariner during daylight hours the same significance as does the aid's light or reflector at night. Standard signboard shapes are square, triangular and rectangular; and the standard colours are red, green, orange, yellow and black. Notable daymarks * Trinity House Obelisk * Kingswear Daymark * Tasku beacon tower * Keskiniemi beacon tower * Hiidenniemi beacon tower * Laitakari beacon tower * Herring Tower, Langness * Le Hocq * La Tour Cârrée * Scharhörnbake Symbols used on US charts Chart symbols used by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Department, 2013. See also * Landmark * Sea mark * Lighthouse A lighthouse is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scharhörnbake 1898
The Scharhörnbake was the most important daymark on the German North Sea coast for several centuries. First erected in 1661 by the City of Hamburg on the sandbank Scharhörn and south side of the Elbe estuary, it was rebuilt over centuries and taken down finally in 1979. Equipped with a room, it also functioned as a refuge beacon for shipwreck survivors from 1840 to 1965.Manfred Temme: ''Vogelfreistätte Scharhörn'', Verein Jordsand, 1967 The only remaining element today is the boulder stone foundation near Nigehörn. With a height of 29.10 meters (95'6"), it was the highest daymark from 1898 until 23 December 1914 on the North Sea coast. Often destroyed by storms, it was also taken down in wartime to make navigation harder for enemy ships. Function The main function of the daymark was to aid navigation for ships around the feared ''Scharhörn Reef ''into the Elbe coming from the North Sea. Many ships wrecked at this dangerous passage. As Hamburg depended most on this, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scharhörnbake
The Scharhörnbake was the most important daymark on the German North Sea coast for several centuries. First erected in 1661 by the City of Hamburg on the sandbank Scharhörn and south side of the Elbe estuary, it was rebuilt over centuries and taken down finally in 1979. Equipped with a room, it also functioned as a refuge beacon for shipwreck survivors from 1840 to 1965.Manfred Temme: ''Vogelfreistätte Scharhörn'', Verein Jordsand, 1967 The only remaining element today is the boulder stone foundation near Nigehörn. With a height of 29.10 meters (95'6"), it was the highest daymark from 1898 until 23 December 1914 on the North Sea coast. Often destroyed by storms, it was also taken down in wartime to make navigation harder for enemy ships. Function The main function of the daymark was to aid navigation for ships around the feared ''Scharhörn Reef ''into the Elbe coming from the North Sea. Many ships wrecked at this dangerous passage. As Hamburg depended most on this, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasku Beacon Tower
Tasku beacon tower (''Taskun pooki'' in Finnish) is a daymark tower located on the island of Tasku (''Pocket'' in English) in the Raahe archipelago in the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland. The structure was built in 1853 from the plans drawn by Albin Stjerncreutz. In 1983 the Finnish Maritime Administration handed it over to the City of Raahe. Currently the city is responsible of the upkeep of this historical aid to navigation. The Tasku beacon tower is one of three historical beacon towers in Raahe archipelago, however only two beacon towers remain: the second one is the Iso-Kraaseli beacon tower. The tower is made of wood and supported by a wooden central column measuring 1.5 meters (5 feet) around. The tower consists of a square bottom section, followed by a pyramidical top section. The top marker is a wooden cross, rising 19.2 meters (63 feet) above sea level. The tower is painted yellow. The beacon tower has historical cultural heritage and is a part of Finnish maritime building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Mark
A sea mark, also seamark and navigation mark, is a form of aid to navigation and pilotage that identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard, or administrative area to allow boats, ships, and seaplanes to navigate safely. There are three types of sea mark: beacons (fixed to the seabed or on shore), buoys (consisting of a floating object that is usually anchored to a specific location on the bottom of the sea or to a submerged object) and a type of cairn built on a submerged rock/object, especially in calmer waters. Sea marks are used to indicate channels, dangerous rocks or shoals, mooring positions, areas of speed limits, traffic separation schemes, submerged shipwrecks, and for a variety of other navigational purposes. Some are only intended to be visible in daylight ('' daymarks''), others have some combination of lights, reflectors, fog bells, foghorns, whistles and radar reflectors to make them usable at night and in conditions of reduced visibility. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingswear Daymark
Kingswear Daymark (also known as The Tower) is a 24 m (80 ft) octagonal limestone day beacon built in 1864, in an arable field above Froward Point near the town of Kingswear, Devon, England. Description The daymark was constructed of local limestone and slate in an arable field. It is octagonal and sharply battered with a truncated open top, and has a tall narrow pointed head arch on each side, forming eight stilted pillars. Construction In 1863, Charles Seale Hayne, owner of Brownstone at that time, became a founder member of the Dartmouth Harbour Commission whose main aim was to improve access and facilities to Dartmouth harbour. The following year, Seale Hayne leased land for the erection of this tower as a day beacon. See also *Day beacon *Landmark *Kingswear Kingswear is a village and civil parish in the South Hams area of the English county of Devon. The village is located on the east bank of the tidal River Dart, close to the river's mouth and opposite the smal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tour Cârrée
La Tour Cârrée, or The Square Tower, on Jersey, is not a tower but rather is a fortified guardhouse and magazine in the style of a blockhouse with loopholes for musketry. It may have been erected in 1778 on the site of a redoubt. The tower supported a battery of three 24-pounder cannons that stood on a paved surface in front of it. Shingle now covers this surface. The tower and battery played a role in the repelling in 1779 of the Prince of Nassau's attempt to land a force at the Franco-Dutch Invasion of Jersey. Historically, the structure and redoubts near it have been known as Square Fort, North Battery, and New North Battery. It is located on St Ouen's Bay, by St Ouen's Pond. Today the structure is painted white and black on the seaward side to serve as a daymark for sailors. Since 2007 the tower has been available as self-catering accommodation under a program the Jersey Heritage Trust administers for the States of Jersey Towers and Forts project. Accommodation is extremely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiidenniemi Beacon Tower
Hiidenniemi beacon tower () was a historic daymark tower on the northern coast of Hailuoto island in Gulf of Bothnia in Finland. The structure was located at the northernmost point of the island, a minor promontory named Hiidenniemi. The structure was built in 1859 from the plans drawn by Ernst Lohrmann. It was a wooden hexagonal (six-sided) tower. The tower had a topmarker, which was either a weather vane or a simple flag A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design emp .... The structure was later destroyed by fire and never rebuilt. Sources * {{Coord missing, Finland Towers completed in 1859 Towers in Finland Gulf of Bothnia Hailuoto Beacon towers Landmarks in Finland Buildings and structures in North Ostrobothnia Daymarks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Hocq
Le Hocq is an area in the parish of St. Clement, in the south-east of Jersey, Channel Islands. Le Hocq is a Jèrriais name, and means 'the headland' or 'the cape' in English. The fortified Jersey Round Tower at Le Hocq, was built in the 1780s. Alongside the tower is the Millennium Cross of St. Clement, one of twelve granite wayside crosses erected to mark the millennium in 2000-2001. The headland juts out onto the rocky Le Hocq Beach (a part of St. Clement's Bay). King's Rock, Queen's Rock and Prince's Rock are sizeable rocky outcrops which form a rough number 7 shape. The peaks of King's and Queen's Rock are vegetated - mostly grass and hardy small plants, and on all of these rocks are evidence of bird (likely |
Herring Tower, Langness
The Herring Tower is situated on the Langness Peninsula in the south of the Isle of Man. It was built by Thomas Brine in 1823. The tower was built as a daymark A daymark is a navigational aid for sailors and pilots, distinctively marked to maximize its visibility in daylight. The word is also used in a more specific, technical sense to refer to a signboard or daytime identifier that is attached to ... and was based on the style of the tower of Peel Castle. Since 1991 the Herring Tower has been protected as a registered building. References {{coord, 54.0587, N, 4.6216, W, type:landmark, display=title Towers in the Isle of Man Registered Buildings of the Isle of Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laitakari Beacon Tower
Laitakari beacon tower is a daymark (navigational aid) located on the island of Laitakari in the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland. The island is located east-northeast of Hailuoto and is within the municipal boundaries of the City of Oulu. There has been a navigational aid on the island since the 1750s, and a beacon tower has been marked on a chart dated in 1785. The current Laitakari beacon tower was built in 1851. The top of the tower is built of wooden boards and painted red. The top structure is resting on top of supporting wooden beams wedged into the gravel. The structure survived the Crimean War, and is still being used as a navigational aid. When aligned with the bell tower of Oulu Cathedral, it guides small vessels to the fairway leading past the northern coastline of Hailuoto Hailuoto (; sv, Karlö) is a Finnish island in the northern Baltic Sea and a municipality in Northern Ostrobothnia region. The population of Hailuoto is (), which make it the smallest municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keskiniemi Beacon Tower
The Keskiniemi beacon tower (''Keskiniemen tunnusmajakka'' in Finnish), often referred to as the Karvo beacon tower, is a historic daymark located on a promontory of Keskiniemi in the northwestern part of Hailuoto island in the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo .... The tower was built in 1858 to alert the vessels about sandbars reaching northwest from the site. It is the oldest surviving navigational aid on Hailuoto island. The tower has structural similarities with the Härkmeri beacon tower built in 1857. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity House Obelisk
The Trinity House Obelisk, also known as the Trinity House Landmark, is a 19th-century obelisk located at Portland Bill, on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. Built as a daymark, it has been Grade II Listed since 1978. The obelisk was built in 1844 to warn ships off the coast of Portland Bill. It stands at the southern tip of the Isle of Portland, acting as a warning of the low shelf of rock extending 30 metres south into the sea. The obelisk is made of Portland stone Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a buildi ... and is seven metres in height. It is inscribed "TH 1844" on its north face. The monument was saved from threatened demolition in 2002 after Trinity House deemed it too expensive to maintain. References {{Isle of Portland Isle of Portland Buildings and struc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
