Light Range
21 miles

Optic Height
38 metres

Tower Height
43 metres

	As built Light-room _________ Bedroom Bedroom Provision-room Kitchen Dry Stores Oil Store Coal and Water First 32 feet eight inches Solid construction. _________ _________
(2002) 1869 Building commenced December 1874 Building completed 1st.January 1875 Official lighting day. Lighting apparatus-Fresnals with Mr.Stevensons holophotals improvements.An octagonal metal frame each side with annular lens,rotating at 4 minutes per revolution giving a flash every 30 seconds. Two fog bells to be rang every 30 seconds as required. 1890 Tonite fog signal to be sounded every 5 minutes. 1905 Incandescent lamp fitted 1960 Fire at lighthouse-tempory light at old Calf of Man lower light. 1962 Automation with 4th.order lens and propane gas light. Tempory foghorn 1968 Permanent unwatched fog horn installed Discontinued June 2005 1999 Light solar powered Twin Tideland ML300 Lanterns,mounted Bi-form. Halogen lamps and six position lampchangers Monitored by radio link to Langness lighthouse
(2011) June 2007 Upgraded - Range extended from 12 to 21 miles Two sets of lens mounted biform on a PRB pedastal with 70 watt Cdmt lamps. Emergency lights.Two Sabik LED 350-3 lanterns Three tier LED lanterns (36 watt) mounted on balcony August 2011 Racon fitted (2011) Showing Racon and one of Sabik LED 350-3 beacons (2011) Showing Racon and Sabik LED 350-3 beacons 2012 Communication by satellite link From 1875 the old Calf of Man lighthouses accommodation was used as the shore station for the Chicken Rock,in1886 a shore station was built in Port St.Mary in the Isle of Man.

All photographs Copyright Fred Fox .