Vormsi (Saxby)

1871 (station established 1864). This lighthouse was prefabricated at Liepaja (then Libau) in Lithuania. It replaced an 1864 cast iron tower of English manufacture, which was relocated to Vaindloo in the Gulf of Finland after it was found to be too short to work effectively at this location. The lighthouse is both the rear light for Vormsi North Range and the front light for the Vormsi Southeast Range. Located on Saxby Neem, the northwest point of Vormsi, about 2 km (1.2 mi) west of the town of Saxby. Site open, tower closed.

About lenses:
* 3rd order - 1864 - Fixed
* 3rd order - 1871 - Fixed

NB! describe a Chance? tower on Stenscher Island (now Waindlo), because it was moved in 1871

About installation.

Installed on the northwestern tip of the island of the same name at the entrance to the Muhu-Vain Strait (Moonsund). The origin of the name is presumably Swedish, meaning "snake island".

Alexander II allowed a cast-iron lighthouse to be built on the island at the expense of the treasury and at the same time ordered a representative of the Hydrographic Department to be sent abroad to inspect “the main lighthouses at the factories of France and England, select a suitable one and then he himself knew how to install cast-iron lighthouses without the help of factories.” Lieutenant Shavernovsky, sent abroad, was also instructed to study electric beacons "hitherto unknown to us." The cast-iron tower and lighting apparatus were purchased from England. The lighthouse was built under the supervision of Lieutenant Shavernovsky. October 2, 1864 lighthouse opened lighting.

A 3rd category diopter lighting device was installed in the lantern structure of a white cast-iron round tower 30 m high with a green roof. It shone with a constant fire of white and red colors. The white luminary in the sectors from 117°30' to 314° and from 328° to 54°30', indicating the position of the island. The red light illuminated the 14° angle between the white sectors, indicating at night the safe entrance from the Gulf of Finland to Moonsund.

A wooden house for the lighthouse servants, a bathhouse, a pantry and a well were built next to the tower.

Soon after the start of operation of the lighthouse, it turned out that its fire was weak and, due to the insufficient height of the tower, it was often covered with vapors rising from the swampy area of the dense forest surrounding the lighthouse. In 1868, a new, more powerful lamp was installed in the lighting apparatus, made in the workshop of the Directorate of Lighthouses of the Baltic Sea. But that didn't help much. The navigators continued to complain, and the Hydrographic Department decided to order a new tower, and move the existing one to Stenscher Island (now Waindlo).

The new tower was made at the Libau Foundry following the model of the one built, but 6.3 m higher. At the beginning of 1871, she was transported to the island on the schooner "Bakan" and installed on a new granite foundation (closer to the northwestern tip of the island).

Lighting at the new lighthouse was opened on August 26, 1871. At first, rapeseed oil was used as a source of fire, and since 1882, petroleum.