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It's located in the most salient part, at south of the island, in the well-known named like Punta Besugueiros,it had been foreseen in the plans of 1847 like a small local light that would be converted, only six years later, in a lighthouse of 4º order and white light varied by red flashes of two in two minutes, that it could be seen 10 miles of distance.
Proyected by D. Celedonio of Uribe,it didn't contain more than the indispensable rooms for two lighthouse keepers and a warehouse. It was a small building with plant of irregular hexagon guided toward the sea with the object of diminishing its resistance the wind, of conception enough heterodox, little habitability and wrong distribution. The tower, cylíndrical, rose from the interior of the building subtracting it part of the scarce surface. On its the balcony lightly flown and the tower hexagonal that supported the lantern and the luminous focus 6 meters over the land and 25 over the half level of the sea.
The works began on May of 1852 and finished on November of the same year with a cost of 54,804 "reales" (old spanish money). They were necessary to add the octogonal lantern of 1.80 meters of diameter and the apparatus of illumination,it acquired to Mr. Fleury Lepaute in 42,632 reales more. The fixed part of the optic was formed by a turret of five rings, the drum lenticular of four panels and the three rings of the inferior part. Around it, two vertical colored dioptrios turned on some small wheels worked by a machine of whatchmaking. The lamp, of oil, of the same maker, was well known as of piston and consistent in a simple mechanism that made to ascend the fuel until the burner, of two wicks concéntrics.
In 1880 it was ordered to highlight from the lighthouse a red beam of light on the shoals of "Corrubedo" which included an angle of 25º at the west starting from the leding line of the cape. Three years later it was endowed of a lamp of Maris petroleum.
Equally that of the island of Ons and another certain amount, the reformation of the "Plan de Alumbrado" meant its suppresion. In order to substitute it would be constructed years after the current lighthouse. A agreement of the "Comision de Faros" the day on May the25th of 1904 established that "a new lighthouse in a more elevated point is constructed, chosen so that, without reducing its angle of illumination in direction to "Corrubedo", is enlarged as far as possible toward the interior of the "estuary", at least until getting shoals of Los Mexos. The apparatus will be of 4º order with groups of 3+ 1 white flashes except in the zone of Corrubedo." Five years later it is rectified its importance to stablish " will be of third order, great model."
Abiding to it was written the project by the engineer D. Ramón Martínez Fields with a similar architecture to the lighthouse of" Cabo Silleiro" .On December the 5th of 1921it is inaugurated the new lighthouse with octogonal tower with a red border and building of masonry.The contractor of the work was D. José Gonzáles Teijeiro for an amount of 106,630 pesetas. The works began on April the 8th of 1912 and they were finished, after numerous prorrogations and setback in 1917. Just after inaugurated it was proceeded to the demolition of 959 cubic meters of rocks to two salient that interrupted the luminous beam of light.
The optic is 500 millimetres of focal distance with turn on float of mercury and worked by machine of watchmaking with peso motor. Its appearance is of 1+ 3 white flashes each 20" marking a free sector from 217º to 126º and another dangerous, from 126º to 160º, that it was differ from the anterior for the suppresion of a flash by means of a system of oscillating screens Otter. The equipament of illumination, included the lantern and other accessory, was acquired to the house German Pintch for an amount of 76,543.75 pesetas gold.
Initially the luminous installation is of incandescence for pressured petroleum of the mentioned Pintch house. This needed a fuel of great purity for a correct operation, more expensive and difficult of getting that the normal. For it, one year later, it would be substituted for another of the house Chance Brothers for hood of 85 millimetres.
On November the 15th of 1925 it is reinforced this marine sign with the installation of a spark radiobeacon of Telefunken identified by the letters S.O.O. emitted during 30" and consecutive from 270" of silence. This characteristic gives place a reclamation of the International Office of the Telegraphic Union of Berna since some ships had confused it with the sign of S.O.S. In order to avoid it,on January the 1st of 1934, its code is substituted by the letters R A.
In 1951 a project of amplification of the building is written in order to harbor the equipament and a new radiobeacon. A little later the "Plan de Instalación de Radiofaros" is published, in which it was not included of the island, reason for the one which the reformation is reduced. In the facade East was placed the electrógens groups batteries and warehouse while in the West were located a warehouse and another housing.As complement it was carried out, also, a closing of balustrade in masonry of granite. These works were finished the day 15 of February of 1954.
At the present time this lighthouse is electrified with utilization of fotovoltáic energy . Soon it will remain included in the"Sistema de Supervisión Remota de Señales Marítimas" to implant by the "Port Authority de Villagarcía".
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