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TURKELİ LIGHTHOUSE |
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Turkeli Lighthouse has been established in 1856 to provide safety of navigation for the vessels entering to the Istanbul Strait from Black Sea.
As the lighthouse tumbled down for several times during the construction, Bennard,Bonnue&Tuanne overseas company, who were the first builder of the lighthouse built the mausoleum firstly then today’s lighthouse because it was said that the reason of this collapse was mainly because of the fact that there was a mausoleum under the construction. There is a Sarı Saltuk mausoleum in this lighthouse and it still has been visited by public.
It has the altitude of 58 from the sea level. The structure of lighthouse is three grades made by knitted store and has 30 meters of height.
The visual sight distance of the lighthouse, in which has the flashing character of GpFl.W.(2) 12 sec, is 18 nautical miles.
Oil lamp has primarily been used and then high intense filament lamps work with LPCo as a light source and it is currently provided an illumination with the electric lamp of 500 W.
In order to be seen from the long distance by strengthen the light source, cotodiyoptric cylinder lenses which has optical distance of 500 mm as a optic system has been used.
At the date of establishment flashing there by blacking and clearing to the light sourse by dark screens rounding around the optic operated with electric acetylene flash afterwards and it has still been operating with electrical flash.
Lighthouse and guardian house is being under protection as national heritage by General Directorate of Coastal Safety and Salvage Administrations.
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