Lafayette transmitter

{{Short description|Transatlantic VLF-transmitter in Marcheprime, Aquitaine, France}}

File:Radio telegraph transmission station at Croix-d'Hins - near Bordeaux France(GN03571).jpg

Lafayette transmitter was a large facility used for transatlantic VLF-transmission, located at Marcheprime, Aquitaine, France. The Lafayette transmitter used an antenna, which was carried by eight free-standing lattice towers (each 250 metres tall) with triangular cross-sections, which were the second tallest free-standing towers in the world. The 250-meter-high tripod pylons were supplied by Pitt-Des Moines Co steelworks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and transported by water to Bordeaux.{{cite web |url=http://dspt.club.fr/lafayette.htm |title=Lafayette |website=dspt.club.fr |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609135453/http://dspt.club.fr/lafayette.htm |archive-date=9 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}

In 1944 the installations of Lafayette transmitter were destroyed by retreating German troops. The last of the towers was demolished in 1953.