Lanby navigational buoy under construction in the Royal Albert Dock.
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Short Summary
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Description
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Data
- Film ID:
- 2227.19
- Media URN:
- 57473
- Group:
- Pathe newsreels
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 21/09/1969
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
Unknown user says
The bouy you show is LANBY 101. It stands for Large Automatic Navigational BuoY. It was the first of the LANBYs, built by Hawker Sidley. Originally the light system was a rotating light system driven by multiple electric motors. It was followed in the '70s by the 200 series LANBYs which were built, mainly in Southampton, and used multiple xenon flash tubes for the light system. They also carried electric fog signals, had two diesel generators providing power, and a UHF telemetry system reporting back to it's control station. LANBY 101 was later updated with a lightship rotating optic and became LANBY 310, the first (and last) of the 300 series buoys.