Baleineaux lighthouse

The Baleineaux lighthouse was built between 1849 and 1853, like the Baleines lighthouse, with which it goes hand in hand, to take over the function of the ineffective Baleines tower, which failed to prevent shipwrecks despite numerous repairs. But unlike the Baleines lighthouse, the Baleineaux lighthouse is built in the open sea, 3 km from the coast, on the rocks of what are known as the Hauts Bancs du Nord. As a result, it was only possible to build the foundations of the semaphore at low...