shields pier lighthouse

[cappy]

Just a bit of info for all who have sailed in and out of the tyne ....after the recent storms on the coast it may be of interest to them to hear the top was knocked of the shields lighthouse by very very large waves ......happily of course there are no lighthouse keepers as all is fully automated......R683532

[John Arton]

From the gazette, some photos of the pier lighthouse being battered by storm waves.
Rgds
J.A
https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/...thouse-4379464

[j.sabourn]

Was trying to remember but don’t think it was one of the two sets of leading lights for entering between the piers . Remember the second light of the first set was in line with the Black Middens , the first light at the end of North Shields Fish Quay. That is if memory still working . When the Zephros went aground in 1947 the Greek skipper missed the piers altogether and his excuse was he mistook a new Zebra Crossing in Tynemouth for a pier light. Probably where that old joke originated , why did the chicken cross the road .? Because it saw the Zebra Crossing ?
JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I paid off the Cairnnavon up the in 1955 next time I saw her she was high and dry on the breakwater. that North sea can be a treacherous place at times.
Des

[Paul Clay]

Damaged buoy at Roker,Sunderland ~ casualty of recent storms!IMG_3152.jpg