Around 23:00 hours the captain, with help from the 1st officer, started the engines and tried to sail free from the pierhead using full power.
A 1905 upgrade to the north pierhead light rendered the older lighthouse superfluous, and it was deactivated that year.
In particular, it may limit the construction of piers in the absence of an official pier line (pierhead line).
An upper deck was added to the pierhead in 1907, and the pier was further extended in 1927.
The helical barred lantern is also thought to have come from the pierhead light.
The diplomatic manoeuvrings and events involving those in authority are set in a fantasy location inside the pierhead pavilion, far from the trenches.
Only the scattered buildings around the pierhead break this pattern.
A new pierhead light was constructed in 1885, and the old light was again extinguished, this time for good.
