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CYCC News 15 Oct 2000

Trinity House Lighthouse Service

Trinity House Lighthouse Service
Trinity House Aids to Navigation on the N.E. Coast of England
Lighting of Unlighted Buoys

Name Character Position (OSGB36 Datum)
Ridge East Cardinal Q(3) 10s Lat 55° 39'.42N, Long 01°45'.52W
Triton Green Conical Q G Lat 55° 39'.58N, Long 01°46'.72W
Swedman Green Conical Fl G 2.5s Lat 55° 37'.65N, Long 01°41'.52W
Shoreston Red Can Q R Lat 55° 35'.88N, Long 01°39'.22W
N Sunderland Red Can Fl R 2.5s Lat 55° 34'.62N, Long 00°37'.02W

Lighting will take place "in the next 18 months or so" and 4 wks notice given in TH NMS.

Plough Seat Buoy LAT 55 DEG 40'.37N., LONG 01 DEG 44'.87W had a light (Q.R.) fitted in August 2000.

Following consultation on the future of Newton Buoy in position Latitude 55° 32'.17N, Longitude 01° 35'.75W it has been decided not to remove it but to continue it as an unlighted buoy. It lies to the north east of rocks at the south end of Beadnell Bay.