Lighthouses of Cuba

[jackd]

Lighthouses of Cuba
This page is a preliminary listing of Cuban lighthouses. Due to the longstanding political difficulties between Cuba and the U.S., American tourists have had only limited access to these sites for many years. Most of the limited information available on the Internet has been posted by European or Canadian visitors or by Cuban tourist agencies.

There are a large number of Cuban lighthouses. Most of them are not automated, so keepers are on site at most locations. Although NGA states that "Many of the lights on the coast of Cuba have been reported to be irregular or extinguished," the information on the Internet indicates that the major lights, at least, are fairly well maintained and regularly active.

More information is badly needed on these lights. It is especially frustrating that so few photos are available. If you have information or photos you are willing to share, please contact me.

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/cub.htm

[Salomones]

Most interesting! Thanks for the link.

My grandfather on my mothres side was managing director of the former Norwegian "Fyrvesenet" (Light House Service), now part of the Coastal Service. My mother tells me of summer holidays on Fyrvesenets maintainance vessels travelling slowly around the western coast of Norway maintaining all the light house, spar buoys and other markings along the numerous fjords and in between all the islands, rocks and skerries.

During my years as a tramway engineer (1979-1982) at the Oslo City Tramway I had a colleaque who worked a couple of years in Fyrvesenet. He worked with automation and communication. Most of the equipment was invented and made *by the engineers and in own workshops because more or less every old light house who was automated had to have its own solutions. He told me about the automated system for changing bulbs and the systems for signalling ashore with a very slow baud rate kind of Morse telegram by radio what was wrong.