Milnerton lighthouse
Lat. 33° 52' 53" S. Long. 18° 29" 10" E
The Milnerton Lighthouse is situated on the shores of Table Bay on Wood Bridge Island in Milnerton. Mariners approaching Table Bay after dark are confronted by a maze of lights and a high level of background city illumination. Navigational lights tend to merge with the ever expanding lights of greater Cape Town making identification difficult. Milnerton functions in conjunction with the Robben Island and Green Point lights to avert any ambiguity in determining a safe anchorage.
The Milnerton Lighthouse was commissioned on 10 March 1960. The lighthouse is a twenty one metre cylindrical reinforced concrete tower, similar to the one at Cape Hangklip. The optic is a Stone-Chance, 250mm catadioptric group-flashing, automatic revolving pedestal. It produces three white flashes every twenty seconds and the candle power is 800,O00 cd. The height of the focal plane is 28 metres and the lighthouse has a range of 25 sea miles. The Milnerton Lighthouse has a subsidiary fixed red sector light which covers the extremities of Robben Island. It is installed in the tower below the main revolving light.
Electric power is supplied by the Blaauwberg Municipality and an automatic standby generator is installed in the base of the tower. An alarm system using coloured lights is monitored by Port Control at Table Bay harbour.
References: Southern Lights: Lighthouses of Southern Africa by Harold Williams.
Milnerton lighthouse
Lat. 33° 52' 53" S. Long. 18° 29" 10" E
The Milnerton Lighthouse is situated on the shores of Table Bay on Wood Bridge Island in Milnerton. Mariners approaching Table Bay after dark are confronted by a maze of lights and a high level of background city illumination. Navigational lights tend to merge with the ever expanding lights of greater Cape Town making identification difficult. Milnerton functions in conjunction with the Robben Island and Green Point lights to avert any ambiguity in determining a safe anchorage.
The Milnerton Lighthouse was commissioned on 10 March 1960. The lighthouse is a twenty one metre cylindrical reinforced concrete tower, similar to the one at Cape Hangklip. The optic is a Stone-Chance, 250mm catadioptric group-flashing, automatic revolving pedestal. It produces three white flashes every twenty seconds and the candle power is 800,O00 cd. The height of the focal plane is 28 metres and the lighthouse has a range of 25 sea miles. The Milnerton Lighthouse has a subsidiary fixed red sector light which covers the extremities of Robben Island. It is installed in the tower below the main revolving light.
Electric power is supplied by the Blaauwberg Municipality and an automatic standby generator is installed in the base of the tower. An alarm system using coloured lights is monitored by Port Control at Table Bay harbour.
References: Southern Lights: Lighthouses of Southern Africa by Harold Williams.