Ro427 Phare des Baleines 'Kathi', Île de Ré

At the top of this lovely Island, is the two lighthouses of Baleines. Taken over by the Kriegsmarine and used as a radar station.
3/3.Funkmess-Ableitung.
5b/Ma.Fl.A.812.
1 x FuMO 214 Würzburg-Riese.
1 x FuMO 3 Calais.
1 x V229 radar socket.
1 x Fl242 emplacement for light Flak.
2 x R502 twin group shelter.
2 x 501 group shelter.
1 x Vf65a Ringstand.
1 x 5cm KwK 38 Pak.
3 x 4cm Flak 28 Bofors.
2 x 2cm Flak 28.

1 x FuMO 3 Calais up on the old lighthouse.
1 x FuMO 214 Würzburg-Riese down by the see on its V229 socket.

An early lighthouse, now superseded by a nice tall lighthouse.

1 x FuMO 3 Calais up on the old lighthouse.

1 - Casemate cannon de 50mm.
2 - Abri personnel;.
9 - Radar recherche marine ser le vieux phare.
11. Cuve pour cannon de 20mm DCA.
10 - Radar recherche aerienne.
19&26 - Platform pour mitrailleuse.
30&31 - Abri pour personnel.
SHM

A nice wall around the land owned by the lighthouse but now a nice walk.

Set into the wall are small niches for rifle shooting.

How the radars may have looked.

1 x FuMO 214 Würzburg-Riese down by the see on its V229 socket.

A post card post war showing the radars still in place.

There was a Flak position on the roof of this garage for a life boat.

Shelter for the indigenous canoe, well that is how it translates.
The shelter for a lifeboat.