Lighthouse Lost

For over 100 years, the Isle of Man (located between England and Ireland) was guarded and protected by the Alfred Pier Light in the Port of Saint Mary, but earlier this month, the lighthouse succumbed to the elements of nature. The pepper pot style lighthouse appears to have been washed off in a violent storm that battered the pier with a number of high waves. All that remains of the Alfred Pier Light is the twisted rubble of what was once the lantern room.

The Alfred Pier Light was built between 1884 by the Duke of Edinburgh. It served the pier in the Port of Saint Mary faithfully until the night of January 11/12 2008.