1/3/2024 0 Comments La jument lighthouse keeper![]() Plans to build a lighthouse on La Jument started not long after the wreck of the Glasgow-built steam ship Drummond Castle in 1896, when about 250 people drowned. ![]() A dangerous reef lurking below the waves in one of Europe's busiest seaways, the area has experienced many shipwrecks over the centuries between 18 thirty-one ships were wrecked there. La Jument lies about 300m off the coast of the isle of Ushant, which is also known as Ouessant in French and Enez Eusa in the Breton language. Poster prints of Breton lighthouse La Jument can be seen decorating the walls of over a million homes, offices and pubs around the world, but Brittany's treacherous reef has been known for centuries by sailors in the Celtic Sea. Lighthouses, eh? I’m a sucker for them.Jean Guichard's dramatic photo of the iconic Breton lighthouse has sold more than a million poster prints around the world. ![]() White light flashing every 10 seconds.ĭreswick Point (IOM): Fl 2 W 30s. 4 white flashes every 30 seconds.Ĭape Point: Fl 3 W 30s. Other selected lighthouse light characteristics include (but are not limited to): And that is: Fl W 5s 31m 30M – a white light flashing every 5 seconds, 31 metres above sea level and visible for 30 nautical miles. And just as I know that my readers needed to know who won the 1991 World Press Photo awards, I know that you’ll want to know the full light characteristic for Cape Agulhas lighthouse. It makes it less of a picture and more of a document. It’s this sort of technical detail which I love about posters like this. And look at its coffee cup ring:Īssuming that ring makes up a minute (and ignoring that awkward gap, top right) I can see three flashes 4 times there. My theory is supported by the fact that La Jument (remember that? It’s famous, after all) has a light characteristic of Fl 3 R 15s that’s 3 flashes of a red light every 15 seconds. I don’t think that they are actual coffee cup rings – I’m hoping that they are examples of light characteristics – a representation of the sequence of flashes that differentiate and identify each lighthouse. (The winner was Guichard’s compatriot Georges Mérillon.)Īaannd the other thing that interested me particularly about the post was the “coffee cup rings” over each of the towers. The photograph – taken on the 21st December 1989 – won second place in the 1991 World Press Photo awards. In an interview he said “If I had been a little further away from the door, I would not have made it back into the tower. Malgorn, suddenly realising that a giant wave was about to engulf the structure, rushed back inside just in time to save his life. Why the fame? Because of this famous (see?) photo by famous lighthouse photographer, Jean Guichard, which has sold over a million copies.īut you must ignore that motivational crap about looking fear in the face, because when the photograph was taken, the lighthouse keeper Théodore Malgorn (for it are he in the doorway) had no idea that the wave was coming, as this account testifies: Firstly, the second lighthouse from the left is La Jument, a 48m high stone tower built in 1911, and apparently “The most famous lighthouse in the world”. Two things I noted about the poster (which I now want for my study wall). ![]() Tagged by London blogger and member of the MEC (Mutual Enjoyment Club), Brian Micklethwait in a lighthouse post? I had better document that.īrian shares a photo of a poster in a shop window a poster featuring 12 Brittany Lighthouses, which I love, and which I have half-inched to share here:
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