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This photo shows Europe’s first automatic buoy, known as a Lighted Navigational Buoy (LNB), the 84-ton Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Lanby LNB as it was being turned over to Trinity House at the Royal Albert Dock on December 3, 1969. Its main beacon was 40-feet above sea level and had a luminous range of 16 miles. After North Sea trials, the Lanby LNB, replaced the Lightship Shambles off the coast of Portland Bill, the southernmost point of Dorset, England. A few weeks before this photo was taken, the United States agreed to return the island of Okinawa to the Japan, which had been in U.S. possession since the end of World War II and where one of the most ferocious and deadly battles of the war had been fought.
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