Zeebrugge East Breakwater - Zeebrugge, Belgium
Lighthouse category: harbourcategory Position: 51° 20' 39.2"N : 3° 12' 56.3"E Status: active Date: not known - station on site since 1905 Designer: not known Tower height: 98 feet Construction: octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery Colour scheme: tower unpainted, lantern red Focal plane height: 102 feet Characteristics: red light occulting once every 7 seconds Foghorn: fogbell - three strokes every 25 seconds Google map view: google map link |
This is a severely cropped section of a an photograph that showed a ship entering the port of Zeebrugge. I hadn't realised that the structure in the background was a harbour light until I started to do the research for this site - and that applies equally to the other final images on this page. This is the light on the East Breakwater at the entrance to Zeebrugge harbour. The large black, billboard-like structure to the right of the tower in this shot, when seen from seaward, displays a series of control lights that are used to signal inbound ships. In common with the other Zeebrugge lights I have no information regarding access to this site - however, from the total absence of people on the mole, I would guess that public access is not possible.