Present Day Buoy
Description of Structure: West Cardinal Buoy
Location: Latitude 54° 24.58’ North Longitude 04° 20.41’ West
Character: Quick Flash (9) 15 Seconds
Colour: Yellow,Black above Yellow Horizontal band

Serviced by NLB Lighthouse ship

History
About a mile off the Point of Ayre is Whitestone Bank,marked by a gas-lighted boat and bell-buoy anchored in 4½ fathoms on the inner edge of the bank.
The tideway on this bank is called the "Streuss"

1906 Boat on station - oil gas light
by Pintsch & Co

Flash 6 sec
wave operated bell

Hull by Hawthorns of Leith

1911 Acetylene light

1963 Whitestone buoy