After studies by the legal engineer of Corfu
and by the engineer T. Daniil, the new Lighthouse of Lakka is being constructed at the location 'Kuera,' with a fixed white light machine emitting a beam of 3 white flashes every 24 seconds, illumination reaching 26 miles, built by the firm Barbier Benard et Turenne, instead of 21050 fcs. Due to World War I, the building and machinery were eventually handed over on April 27, 1916. However, due to the impossibility of assembly because of the war conditions, it was requested by foreign hydrographic offices to remove this lighthouse from nautical charts and beacons. In the newspaper 'Paxoi,' issue no. 163/1933, p.1, the decommissioning date of the new lighthouse is stated as 1913 and its completion in 1919. 'On June 12, 1919, its operation commenced, and on September 17, 1930, the replacement of the illuminating sources was made with a new incandescent machine, operating, as known, by oil vapor.'
During the Italian-German occupation, the Lakka lighthouse was bombed and relit in 1952, while a portion of the Italian occupation was encamped there. Also, reference is made to the image of St. Nicholas, which was the only one saved from the destruction of the lighthouse in 1913: 'During the collapse, all the components of the lighthouse were destroyed, and only the icon of the chapel was saved, which was transferred in 1919 to the new lighthouse, where, with the initiative and assistance of the then head of the lighthouse, the late D. Grammaticos (Lakke), and the lighthouse keepers Char. Daliétou, Char. Grammaticos, and A. Grammaticos, a new chapel was erected, in which the saved icon of St. Nicholas was placed.