Headlight of Kéréon

Kéréon is a Phare which rises on the reef of Men Tensel ( aggressive stone in Breton) between Ushant and Molène on the Passage of Fromveur in Mer of Iroise.

History

Built of 1907 to 1916, it was financed partly by a gift of 585.000 francs Amicie Lebaudy (to be compared with total costs construction of 941.000 francs). It thus bears the name of his large uncle, Charles-Marie Dall de Kéréon, a naval officer guillotine at the 19 years age during the Terreur. This gift also made it possible to make the last headlight-monument of it: its interior is luxurious, with mosaic in the stair-well, of the parquet floor in Chêne decorated of a inlaid Compass card in Acajou and ebony, as well as skirtings in oak of Hungary.

Its fire is lit for the first time in 1916. It runs on oil until 1972, date of its electrification. As of this period, fire ignites according to the luminosity, thanks to a cell, and is fed by two generators and a wind , but the guards remained charged to take care of its good performance and to maintain it.

It was the last “hell” (headlight isolated on the open sea) with being automated, on January 29th 2004, by the installation of a telecontrol since the Phare of Créac' H. Since, its inlaid floors and its skirtings are not maintained any more by the guards, but there remains heated and dehumidified between the visits of maintenance which take place per good weather.

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