St Ann's Head Lighthouse

St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
St. Ann's Low Light

St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
Location	Milford Haven Pembrokeshire Wales United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°40′52″N 5°10′25″W / 51.681218°N 5.173675°W / 51.681218; -5.173675
Tower
Constructed	1714 (first)
Construction	masonry tower
Automated	1998
Height	13 metres (43 ft)
Shape	octagonal tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower and lantern
Operator	Trinity House[1][2]
Heritage	National Monuments of Wales
Light
First lit	1844 (current)
Deactivated	1910
Focal height	48 metres (157 ft)
Lens	First-order catadioptric
Intensity	48,700 candela
Range	18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi)
Characteristic	Fl WR 5s.

St. Ann's Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse that overlooks the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway, one of Britain's deep water harbours, from St. Ann's Head near Dale in Pembrokeshire.

The lighthouse is intended to guide ships around a number of rocky shoals that cause a hazard to shipping entering the Haven as well as Crow's rock. The current lighthouse was completed in 1844, at which time it was known as St. Ann's Low Light, and was commissioned by John Knott, senior lighthouse keeper with Trinity House. The first lighthouse on the site was built in 1714.

The present operational tower is 13 metres (43 ft) in height and is painted white. Visible is Skokholm Lighthouse on the small island of Skokholm 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the west.

• List of lighthouses in Wales

Wikimedia Commons has media related to St. Ann's Head Lighthouse.

• www.geograph.co.uk Photos of St. Ann's Head Lighthouse
• Trinity House
• grid reference SM807028