| 词条 | Cape Race Lighthouse |
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| name = Cape Race Lighthouse | image_name = Cape Race Light.jpg | caption = The second Cape Race Lighthouse from 1907 | location = Avalon Peninsula Newfoundland and Labrador Canada | coordinates = {{coord|46|39|31.2|N|53|04|25.6|W|scale:25000|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | pushpin_map = Canada Newfoundland | pushpin = lighthouse | pushpin_map_caption = Newfoundland | pushpin_label_position = top | pushpin_relief = 1 | yearbuilt = 1856 (first) relocated in 1980 to Ottawa at Canada Science and Technology Museum | yearlit = 1907 (current) | automated = | yeardeactivated = | foundation = | construction = concrete tower | shape = cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern | marking = white tower, red lantern | height = {{convert|29|m|ft|0}} | focalheight = {{convert|52|m|ft|0}} | lens = Hyperradiant Fresnel lens by Chance Brothers | currentlens = | intensity = | range = {{convert|24|nmi}} | characteristic = Fl W 7.5s | fogsignal = Horn (2) 60s | admiralty = H0444 | canada = CCG 1 | NGA =1904 | ARLHS =CAN-118 | managingagent = Cape Race National Historic Site [1] | module = {{Infobox designation list |embed=yes |designation1=NHSC |designation1_offname=Cape Race Lighthouse National Historic Site of Canada |designation1_date=1975 }} }}Cape Race Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located in Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland. The light's characteristic is a single white flash every 7.5 seconds, additionally a foghorn may sound a signal of two blasts every 60 seconds. It is located on one of Canada's busiest shipping lanes.[2] The lighthouse is also a tourist attraction.[3] HistoryIn 1856, the first lighthouse was installed by the British Government's Trinity House. It was a cast iron tower with a coal oil lamp turned by clockwork. In 1872 the lighthouse keeper was Patrick Myrick; members of his family continued to operate the lighthouse for more than 100 years.[4] In 1886 responsibility for operation of the lighthouse was transferred to the Dominion of Canada.[5][6] In 1904 the Marconi Company set up a wireless radio station at the lighthouse.[4] The cast iron tower was replaced in 1907 by a {{convert|29|m|adj=on}} tall concrete tower and a light with a massive hyperradiant Fresnel lens made by Chance Brothers in England.[7] Its optic emitted a one million candle power flash.[8] Great landfall lights like those at Cape Race provided the first sight of land for Atlantic travelers.[9] After the new tower was built, the original lighthouse was moved to Cape North; it now stands in front of the National Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The Cape Race Lighthouse was in the news in April 1912, when it received the Titanic distress call, an unusual event for radio technology of the era.[4] The lighthouse was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1975.[10] In 2006, David Myrick, with help from Noel and Liam Myrick - part of a lineage of Myrick lighthouse keepers at Cape Race, contributed wood from the cabinet housing the motor driving the Fresnel to the Six String Nation project. Part of this material serves as the heel brace at the joint of the neck and body of Voyageur, the guitar at the heart of the project.[11] See also
References1. ^{{cite rowlett|nfle|accessdate=December 30, 2015}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Canadian Historic Sites; Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History: Lieux Historiques Canadiens; Cahiers D'archéologie Et D'histoire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-gqAQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Parks Canada.|page=48}} 3. ^"Mistaken Point road upgrade boosts summer visitor numbers". CBC News, Sep 11, 2014 4. ^1 2 "‘Struck iceberg. Send help right away.’. The Telegram, Steve Bartlett Apr 13, 2012 5. ^{{cite book|author=Canada|title=Acts of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLavAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR4|year=1887|publisher=M. Cameron|page=4}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Rogert G. Thorne|title=A Cherished Past: Newfoundland's front row seat to history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQeMBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54|date=6 February 2015|publisher=Gerard Thorne|isbn=978-0-9695828-2-3|page=54}} 7. ^{{cite book|author=Roger Bansemer|title=Journey to Titanic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7jWDCJaqCsC&pg=PA22|year=2003|publisher=Pineapple Press Inc|isbn=978-1-56164-292-2|page=22}} 8. ^{{cite book|author=Frederick A. Talbot|title=Lightships and Lighthouses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahRNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT146|publisher=Prabhat Prakashan|isbn=978-81-8430-695-8|page=146}} 9. ^"Cape Race". The Canadian Encyclopedia. 10. ^{{CRHP|10652|Cape Race Lighthouse|1 July 2012}} 11. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302060380|title=Six string nation : 64 pieces, 6 strings, 1 Canada, 1 guitar|last=Jowi.|first=Taylor,|date=2009|publisher=Douglas & McIntyre|isbn=9781553653936|location=Vancouver|oclc=302060380}} External links
6 : Lighthouses completed in 1856|Lighthouses completed in 1907|Towers completed in 1907|Lighthouses in Newfoundland and Labrador|National Historic Sites in Newfoundland and Labrador|Lighthouses on the National Historic Sites of Canada register |
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