Sumburgh Head Lighthouse Shetland
Sumburgh Head Foghorn
This is the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse & Foghorn, which was built in 1905 and recently restored.
The foghorn is located on the southern tip of the Mainland of Shetland in the UK. which is a remote island located between Iceland, Norway & united kingdom, or just north of Scotland.
To sound the foghorn, the diesel engines are started up and air is compressed into large reservoir tanks at 25 PSI
Then a valve is unlocked, and turned to allow the air access to the horn, but before the horn can be used, a worker needs to go up a spiral stair case to the horn room and activate it from there.
There are 3 x 1951Kelvin K-Series Diesel 44hp Engines. The engines power the Alley and MacLellan compressors, which in turn, power the foghorn.
Every foghorn has it’s own unique sounding pattern, that differs from other foghorn signals in the area, Sumburgh's horn blows for one 7 second blast every 90 seconds. This allowed ship captains in the area to know which horn is warning them.
The Foghorn was last sounded in 1987, but will sound now again on special occasions.
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Sumburgh Head cliffs, Shetland
A video taken by wife C, looking around the cliffs and North Sea at Shetland's southern tip which lies a few miles from the 60th Parallel . Although the photographic conditions were perfect for Puffins there were few around, but why was this? At the time this video was taken (Friday 6 July 2012) most of the birds were at sea looking for food to feed their chick, we saw a lot more birds well into the evening, but in poorer light values brings less good photographic weather. The guillemots were there on the sea stacks below; they lay their eggs directly onto the surface with no nest material or cover, apart from their bodies, very unlike puffins, rabbits lend their holes to them in good neighbourly fashion.
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Some of the children from this years Fiddle Frenzy entertained us during there recent visit to Sumburgh Head Lighthouse, Visitor Centre and Nature Reserve.
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4 – Chicken Rock, Calf of Man (Approximate Height: 144 ft)
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Sounding the Sumburgh Foghorn
The annual Foghorn sounding at Sumburgh Lighthouse, Shetland, Scotland.
Brian Johnson starts up the 1951Kelvin K-Series Diesel 44hp Engines. The engines power the Alley and MacLellan compressors, which in turn, power the foghorn.
Just so's you know, the horn was originally much louder at the end, but YouTube's audio algorithm turned the volume down. I tried several versions but it wasn't having it.
This foghorn was also used as part of the foghorn sound for Robert Eggers The Lighthouse. Read more here -
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Lizard Lighthouse
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A new automatic light was established beside the original light in 1991.
In 2012 the old Kinnaird Head Lighthouse was lit for two anniversary celebrations. First, on 2nd June 2012 the light was exhibited in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. This co-incided with the lighting of the NLB's Queen's Diamond Jubilee Beacon at Kinnaird Head Lighthouse. Secondly, the light was exhibited on the 1st December 2012 in celebration of Kinnaird Head's 225th anniversary. The light was lit at 3.31pm, and extinguished at 8.30am the next morning, marking a full 17 hour shift. On that occasion Kinnaird Head was the only manned lighthouse in the British Isles, albeit outwith NLB service. Both events were organised by the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
This video also video footage of my family visiting the Museum during 2004.
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(Gardner LW4 engines, Reavell Compressors)
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