Buda (Buda mouth of the Ebro) Lighthouse

Very little information is available regarding the history of the lighthouse though there is a myriad of information available regarding it's construction.
The island of Buda is a maritime fluvial island located at the eastern end of the Ebro Delta in the province of Tarragona in Spain where the river flows into the Mediterranean sea.
The lighthouse was designed by a Spanish architect and engineer Lucio del Valle. It was built in iron by John H Porter of Birmingham and Chance Brothers of Smethwick near Birmingham supplied the optic.
The lighthouse was built on a sandbar on the Ebro Delta along with two other lights the El Fangar and La Bana. All three lighthouses were built on screw piles driven into the sand bar. The somewhat spindly meccano looking structure was built using 8 piles driven into the sand to a depth of 30 feet with an octagonal base some 56 feet in diameter with a ninth central pile. The total weight of the structure including the lantern was 170 tons and it was the highest iron lighthouse to be built at the time 38 feet higher than the previous tallest.
The whole structure was fabricated in the UK before being taken out to be erected. John Porter said that the structure had been conceived with simplicity, convenience and safety at the forefront of consideration for the process of erection abroad.
A model was constructed in iron at 5% size of the original to represent exactly how the lighthouse looked. This was built in Barcelona in 1867 and was presented at the Universal Exhibition in Paris. The model still exists and is now kept at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
The lighthouse was destroyed by a storm in 1961.