Berbice Entrance Range Front Lighthouse

Chance Brothers Lighthouse Chance Brothers Lighthouse
  • Date of lens manufacture
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  • Date of lighthouse construction

    Around 2011.

  • Country

    Guyana

  • Commissioning body

    Guyana Transport and Harbours Department

  • Order of lens
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  • Fixed or revolving lens

    Fixed

  • Active/Inactive
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  • Describe the character of light

    Q W - continuous quick - quick flashes repeated regularly

  • Describe the lighthouses daymarks

    Diamond shaped slatted daymark painted red. 13 m (43 ft) square skeletal tower mounted on a wood platform supported by wood piles. The tower also carries a diamond-shaped slatted daymark, painted red.

  • Which aspects of the lighthouse (other than the lens) were manufactured by Chance brothers
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  • Describe the history of the lighthouse

    This light replaced a light, formerly listed by NGA, that had a focal plane of only 6 m (20 ft). According to Capt. Peter, the range lights were upgraded after large quantities of bauxite began to be shipped from New Amsterdam. Located off the entrance to the Berbice estuary, which leads to the port of New Amsterdam. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed.

  • Current management body/ ports authority

    Guyana Transport and Harbours Department

  • Historical preservation societies/manager/operator
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  • Is the site vulnerable to coastal erosion?
    no
  • Have you experienced any affects of climate change on the lighthouse?
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  • Observations on the condition of the lighthouse?
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  • Is the site open/closed to the public

    Open

  • Is the tower open/closed to the public

    Closed

  • Latitude and Longitude

    Longtitude -57.523333, Lattitude 6.346667

  • On-site bookable accommodation available
    no
  • Associated web addresses
  • Other details

    Admiralty J6858; NGA 17324.

    #tbchecked because this is pretty new light, and I have no information about Chances. There was also "Berbice Harbour LT. Vessel" (one fixed bright light) – (British). Near E.Point of entrance. Visible 15 miles. Year established 1850. Lat 6 19.3N, Long 57 22.5W See Lighthouses of the World c1864 (1879) Photo https://www.evernote.com/l/AHuz5J6FfulN-7JvN12z8hndWMU1eJO2fzE

  • Which resources did you use to research this lighthouses?
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added on June 17, 2022
Made In Smethwick: Lighthouses Around the World

In the 1800s, Chance Brothers & Co glassworks in Smethwick began making the hi-tech lenses that lighthouses use to warn ships of dangerous locations. By 1951, over 2,500 lighthouses around the world were fitted with a Chance lens.

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