Royal Sovereign Lighthouse
Royal Sovereign lighthouse was a lighthouse marking the Royal Sovereign shoal, a sandbank 11 km offshore from Eastbourne. The structure's distinctive shape was easily recognised as the lighthouse tower is perched above a large platform supported by a single pillar rising out of the water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse
- Historically known as: “Royal Sovereign Light Vessel”
Royal Sovereign Lighthouse
- Categories: light platform, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Royal Sovereign Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Royal Sovereign”
- French: “phare Royal Sovereign”
- French: “Phare Royal Sovereign”
- German: “Royal Sovereign Lighthouse”
- Italian: “Faro di Royal Sovereign”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska Royal Sovereign”
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