One a rather wet an miserable August day in 1999 we see the now defunct Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre at Penzance.

Trinity House National Lighthouse Centre at Penzance which housed the national collection of Trinity House. It included an significant amounts of lighthouse memorabilia which visitors could interact with, as well as a recreation of a light house interior.

In February 2005 Trinity House announced the museum's closure and relocation of the collection to Plymouth. Trinity House confirmed that they would not be relocating the collection in 2009, and were in negotiations with National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth to display some objects.

Between 1989 and the museum's closure in February 2005, the museum hosted approximately 10,000 visitors each year. Despite a campaign to keep it open, in 2005, Trinity House closed the site as they were contemplating opening a replacement museum at a busier site in Plymouth.
Trinity House confirmed that they would not be moving the museum to Plymouth in 2009, and that the memorabilia would no longer be visible to the public, though they would possibly display some at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth.

Some items were also relocated to the Lizard Lighthouse Visitor Centre including the tramway wagon which was used to move buoys from the quayside to the buoy store.

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Strumble Head Lighthouse was constructed by Trinity House in 1908 to improve navigation for those vessels arriving at the then new railway packet port of Fishguard three miles to the east.

The lighthouse is located on Ynys Meicl (St' Michael's Island). The tower is 56 feet high.

The light was automated in 1980 and is controlled from the Trinity House Control Centre at Harwich.

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This is the former Commissioners of Irish Lights LV ALBATROSS seen alongside North Quay, Arklow in October 2000.

She had been moved to Arklow after spending some months anchored up the coast at Dún Laoghaire as an art feature known as the "Ghost Ship" - hence the luminous paint.

Prior to that she had operated as a Sea Scout training ship since being decommissioned at the end of the 1960s.

The vessel had been built by Henry Robb of Scotland in 1925. Whilst at Arklow her beacon was removed and subsequently installed on North Quay as a feature.

I think the hull was then taken to Dublin. From information received it appears it is now in Rochester Harbour, Kent being converted into a house boat.

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Peninnis Lighthouse is located on Peninnis Head, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. The light was built to replace the lighthouse in the centre of the island of St Agnes and helps vessels to enter Hugh Town harbour, via St Mary's Sound. It was first lit in 1911, is circular, 45 feet (14 m) tall and consists of a black steel open lattice foundation, white gallery and black–domed top. It was one of the first gas–powered light houses to use acetylene and converted to electricity in 1992. In recent years the light has been converted to LED illumination. It has a visible range of 9 nautical miles.

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North Bull Lighthouse viewed from Fred Olsen Lines' MS BOUDICCA when entering the Port of Dublin on a cruise from Liverpool via Cóbh.

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The North Bull Lighthouse, is an active aid to navigation located at the mouth of the River Liffey, near Dublin, Ireland. It is one of four lighthouses that help guide shipping into the Liffey, and the Port of Dublin, all of which are operated and maintained by the Dublin Port Company.

Completed in 1880, it was designed by Bindon Blood Stoney an Irish engineer, who also oversaw the construction of the North Bull Wall. The green lighthouse marks the outer end of the wall, which becomes submerged at high tide. On the opposite side of the channel, at the end of the Great South Wall is the red Poolbeg Lighthouse.

The need for the lighthouse and other improvements to aids to navigation at the port, was described in the proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1888, following a visit to Dublin by members of the Institute. "The construction of deep-water quays and the improvement of the channel were followed by an increase in the number of passenger steamers entering and leaving the port at fixed hours; and, as this class of traffic developed the need of improved lights and fog-signals was felt." The proceedings also show an early photograph with the four storey tower having a small lantern room at the top of tower, this was later removed, and the light is now being shown from a pole in the same location.

North Bull was designed by Bindon Blood Stoney the then Chief Engineer of the Dublin Port and Docks Board, becoming operational in 1880, it originally displayed a white occulting light from a fourth-order Barbier and Fenestre optic. Although the light was fixed, a set of four rotating screens with lenses produced the occulting characteristic of seven seconds lit and eclipsed (or dark) for four seconds.

During foggy conditions a fog bell was used, whereby a mechanism struck a 17 long cwt (860 kg) bell "four times in quick succession every thirty seconds". Although the fog bell at North Bull is now disused, in 1923 it was still operational, along with other bells at North Bank and North Wall Quay, whereas Poolbeg had a fog siren.

The 15-metre-high (49 ft) wrought iron tower sits on a stonework platform which itself is built upon foundations of "two concrete blocks, each weighing 330 tons". The blocks were cast at Alexandra Basin and moved using a floating sheerleg crane.

Operated by the Dublin Port Company, it is registered under the international Admiralty number A5884 and it has the NGA identifier of 114–6628. With a focal height of 15 metres (50 ft) above sea level, the light can be seen for 10 nautical miles. Its characteristic is a green light, which flashes once every four seconds.

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