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A Google search on the obvious keywords produces two [[Google Books]] hits: ''Ship Collision Analysis: Proceedings of the international symposium on advances in ship collision analysis, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-13 May 1998'' edited by Henrik Gluver and Dan Olsen; and ''Ship Collision with Bridges: The Interaction Between Vessel Traffic and Bridge Structures'' (1993) by Ole Damgaard Larsen (a name surprisingly similar to "Dan Olsen"!). There seems to be a technical glitch keeping Google Books from showing me any pages of the first book, but on page 66 the second one refers to an actual collision of "a 10,600 [[deadweight tonnage|DWT]] vessel" against "the [[Drogden]] lighthouse in Copenhagen", so there's a fourth example. By adding "Drogden" to the search, I then found [http://www.accseas.eu/content/download/3990/35359/file/04+Mads+Bentzen+Billeso+Vessel+Operations+Coordination+Tool.pdf this PDF document] which on page 5 gives the position of the lighthouse (apparently in degrees and decimal minutes, equivalent to {{Coord|55.54|N|12.71|E}}) and tells some of the story (in bad English) but does not give the date or the name of the ship. --[[Special:Contributions/65.94.50.4|65.94.50.4]] ([[User talk:65.94.50.4|talk]]) 07:12, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

:Please read my question again. I'm asking about ships hitting lighthouses on land, not lighthouses on water that sit in shipping lanes; I even linked the Elbow of Cross Ledge Light in my original question. [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 13:50, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

:::Oops, sorry. --[[Special:Contributions/65.94.50.4|65.94.50.4]] ([[User talk:65.94.50.4|talk]]) 22:52, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

::That's a bit like asking something ridiculous like "has anyone ever tripped over a tree branch thirty feet in the air". Lighthouses on land are unlikely to have been destroyed by ships beaching themselves. Any ship large enough to do significant damage to a light house would have grounded itself well before reaching the beach. --[[User:Jayron32|<span style="color:#009">Jayron</span>]][[User talk:Jayron32|<b style="color:#090">''32''</b>]] 21:02, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

:What does the title of this section mean? ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] ^{''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]''} [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 21:50, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

::As I said above: it refers to the [[lighthouse and naval vessel urban legend]]. --[[Special:Contributions/65.94.50.4|65.94.50.4]] ([[User talk:65.94.50.4|talk]]) 22:52, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

== industrial revolution ==