List of lighthouses and lightvessels in Belgium
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Template:Short description Template:GeoGroupTemplate This is a list of lighthouses and lightvessels in Belgium.
Lighthouses
| Name | Image | Region | Location Coordinates |
Year built |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blankenberge Lighthouse | Flanders | Blankenberge Template:Coord |
1952 | The tower has a U-shaped cross-section. It is attached to a maritime museum.<ref name="Rowlett">Template:Cite rowlett</ref> | |
| Heist Range Rear Light | Flanders | Heist, Zeebrugge Template:Coord |
1907 | This tower used to serve in a range of leading lights until 1983.<ref name="Rowlett" /> | |
| Heist Range Front Light | Flanders | Heist, Zeebrugge Template:Coord |
1912 | This tower used to serve in a range of leading lights until 1983.<ref name="Rowlett" /> | |
| Lange Nelle Lighthouse | Flanders | Ostend Template:Coord |
1949 | In 1994, the tower was painted with two blue waves on white ground. | |
| Nieuwpoort Lighthouse | Flanders | Nieuwpoort Template:Coord |
1949 | A lighthouse called Vierboet was established in downtown Nieuwpoort already in 1284. It got a lantern in 1863 and was eventually destroyed in World War I. The current lighthouse is the successor to a tower from 1926.<ref name="Rowlett" /> | |
| West-Hinder I | Offshore | Template:Convert northwest of Nieuwpoort Template:Coord |
1950 | The lightvessel in a series of three used in the West-Hinder shoal off Nieuwpoort. It was decommissioned in 1972 and sold in 1976. While being used as a floating restaurant in Ostend, it sank at its berth in 1978 but could be refloated. In the 1980s, it was sold for scrap but was eventually saved. It was towed to Rupelmonde in 2002 where it can be visited.<ref name="Rowlett" /> | |
| West-Hinder II | Offshore | Template:Convert northwest of Nieuwpoort Template:Coord |
1950 | This lightvessel was decommissioned in 1994. It is now berthed on dry land in a theme park at the Zeebrugge water front.<ref name="Rowlett" /> | |
| West-Hinder III | Offshore | Template:Convert northwest of Nieuwpoort Template:Coord |
1950 | This lightvessel was heavily damaged in 1960 in a collision with the Norwegian tanker Branita. On its way to Ostend for repair, the lightvessel sank, but could be salvaged and resumed duty. It was decommissioned in 1992, and donated to the city of Antwerp in 1995.<ref name="Rowlett" /> | |
| Westhinder Lighthouse | Offshore | Template:Convert northwest of Nieuwpoort Template:Coord |
1992 (c.) | This fixed installation replaced the Westhinder lightvessels around 1992.<ref name="Rowlett" /> | |
| Zeebrugge Old Mole Lighthouse | Flanders | Zeebrugge Template:Coord |
1905 | In World War I, the lighthouse was heavily damaged during the British Zeebrugge Raid in 1918.<ref name="Rowlett" /> |
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