NASH POINT LIGHTHOUSE, NASH POINT, ST.DONAS, SOUTH WALES. por ZACERIN
NASH POINT LIGHTHOUSE IS A GRADE 2 LISTED, HISTORIC BUILDING. IT IS A MAJOR PART OF OUR SOCIAL AND MARITIME HISTORY AND WAS THE LAST MANNED LIGHTHOUSE IN WALES, BEING DE-MANNED IN AUGUST 1998, JUST A MONTH, OR SO, BEFORE THE LAST MANNED LIGHTHOUSE IN THE U.K. (NORTH FORELAND IN KENT) WAS SWITCHED OVER TO AUTOMATIC OPERATION.
THE LIGHTHOUSE’S OPERATION IS MONITORED BY TRINITY HOUSE’S OPERATION & PLANNING CONTROL CENTRE AT HARWICH, ESSEX.
THE STATION WAS BUILT BETWEEN 1831 -1832 USING “BLUE LIAS” STONE QUARRIED FROM THE BEACH BELOW THE STATION WHICH WAS THEN WINCHED UP THE CLIFF AND DRESSED ON SITE BY VERY SKILLED MASONS AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN MANY, MANY LABOURERS.
THE FOUNDATIONS FOR BOTH THE LOW (WEST) TOWER AND THE HIGH (EAST TOWER) WERE LAID IN THE WEEK BEFORE 1ST OCTOBER 1831 AND THE WHOLE STATION WAS COMPLETED AND EXHIBITED ITS LIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 1ST SEPTEMBER 1832.
IT IS SOMETIMES SAID THAT THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS BUILT DUE TO THE LOSS OF A SHIP CALLED “THE FROLIC” WHICH WAS WRECKED ON THE NASH SANDS IN MARCH 1831 WITH THE LOSS OF ABOUT 78 LIVES INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE HIGH-RANKING MILITARY GENTLEMAN. THIS INCIDENT MAY WELL HAVE BEEN THE REASON THAT CONSTRUCTION TOOK PLACE SO SOON AND WAS COMPLETED SO QUICKLY THOUGH TRINITY HOUSE HAD PURCHASED THE LAND AND DESIGNED THE TOWERS AND THE REST OF THE STATION SOMETIME PRIOR TO THIS TRAGIC LOSS.
IT IS ALSO SOMETIMES STATED THAT TRINITY HOUSE’S ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF, JAMES WALKER BUILT THE STATION THOUGH HE DID NOT JOIN TRINITY HOUSE UNTIL 1832. IT WAS JOSEPH NELSON WHO DESIGNED AND BUILT THE STATION TOGETHER WITH HIS NEPHEW, JAMES WALKER MAY HAVE BEEN PRESENT ABOUT THE TIME THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS FULLY COMMISSIONED.
BOTH TOWERS WERE BUILT AT THE SAME TIME AND A LIGHT WAS EXHIBITED (SHONE) FROM EACH. THIS GAVE A CLEAR SET OF “LEADING LIGHTS” FOR ANY VESSELS SAILING EASTWARDS UP THE BRISTOL CHANNEL AND GUIDED THEM SOUTH OF THE DANGEROUS NASH SANDS. DURING THE EARLY 1920’S THE USE OF THE LOW TOWER WAS DISCONTINUED AND A SECTOR WAS PLACED IN THE LANTERN OF THE EAST TOWER, SHINING A RED BEAM OVER THE AREA OF THE SANDBANKS.SINCE 1832 THE LIGHTHOUSE HAS SERVED THE MARINER WELL WITH VERY FEW INCIDENTS OR MARITIME LOSSES BEING RECORDED ON THE NASH SANDS, TO THE PRESENT TIME.
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