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Les Hanois

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which was built in 1862 from Cornish granite using a novel dovetail system to lock each stone with the vertically and horizontally adjacent stones. It was built in the hope of reducing the number of ships being lost on the reef on the west coast of Guernsey; it undoubtedly saved a number of ships.
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Douglass, James (17 February 1871). "On the Wolf Rock Lighthouse".
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The reef has claimed many shipwrecks over the centuries, such as
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However, the wrecks continued, the last disaster being the MV
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in 1974, a freighter lost with all hands on La Conchée reef.
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Index

Guernsey
Channel Islands
HMS Boreas
Royal Navy
List of shipwrecks in the Channel Islands
Les Hanois Lighthouse
Trinity House
Les Hanois and the lighthouse
"Hanoveaux / Les Hanois, Guernsey"
"Guernsey Hanois fog horn silenced after two weeks"
ISBN
0-9540595-1-4
49°26′13″N 2°42′00″W / 49.4370°N 2.7000°W / 49.4370; -2.7000
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Channel Islands
Bailiwick of Guernsey
Alderney
Burhou
Les Casquets
Ortac
Guernsey
Bréhon
Caquorobert
Crevichon
Herm
Jethou
Les Hanois
Les Houmets

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