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Jean Guichard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɡiʃaʁ]), born in Paris, on April 28, 1952, [1] is a French photographer known for his images of lighthouses. One series of seven pictures, titled La Jument, is world-famous; taken in 1989, it depicts the French lighthouse "La Jument" in a tempest. In the photograph, a wave is about to engulf the ...
La Jument ("the mare") is a lighthouse in Brittany, Northwestern France. [1] The lighthouse is built on a rock (that is also called La Jument) about 300 metres from the coast of the island of Ushant. It was listed as a historic monument in 2017. [2] It has been called Brittany's most famous lighthouse, largely because of photography by Jean ...
Winstanley was recorded as having expressed great faith in his construction, wishing he might be inside it during "the greatest storm there ever was". The tower was destroyed on the night of 27 November 1703, during the Great Storm of that year. Winstanley was visiting the lighthouse that night to make repairs, and he lost his life.
Destruction of the first Eddystone lighthouse in great storm 1703. The first Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth was destroyed on 8 December [O.S. 27 November], killing six occupants, including its builder, Henry Winstanley. (John Rudyard was later contracted to build the second lighthouse on the site.) Two days later, a cargo ship struck the ...
The Scotch Cap Light was built in 1903 as a 45-foot (14 meter) wood tower on an octagonal wooden building. According to the Coast Guard Historian's Office, the lighthouse was witness to several shipwrecks. [4] In 1909, the cannery supply ship Columbia wrecked. The 194 crew members were guests of the keepers for two weeks before a rescue ship ...
Minot's Ledge Light, officially Minots Ledge Light, is a lighthouse on Minots Ledge, one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, Massachusetts, to the southeast of Boston Harbor.The current lighthouse is the second on the site, the first having been washed away in a storm after only a few months of use.
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An observational flight the day after the storm, August 28, 2011, showed that the tower had no visible damage from the impact. [7] It was listed in an article in Time on light houses that have been restored to bed and breakfast facilities, although Neal's goal was never to create a hotel or bed and breakfast, but instead to raise funds to ...