Orfordness Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse on Orford Ness, in Suffolk, England. The 30 metres tower was completed in 1792. The light had a range of 25 nautical miles . It was equipped with an AIS transmitter with MMSI 992351016.
The first lights in this area were constructed in 1637: a pair of wooden leading lights. These were replaced in 1780 by a pair of brick octagonal towers. Scarcely a dozen years later the lower light of the two was precariously close to the sea due to shore erosion; it collapsed not long afterwards. In 1792, anticipating this inevitability, the landowner Lord Braybrooke built a new 'high light' in a different position. This is the lighthouse which still stands today. The old high light then functioned as the new 'low light'. Both were fitted with Argand lamps and reflectors . In 1838 the low light was fitted with a fixed array of dioptric lenses and mirrors by Isaac Cookson & co. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne .
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