| FACING PAGE | |
| The 43,000,000 Candle-Power Beams thrown from the Heligoland Lighthouse | Frontispiece |
| How the Beachy Head Lighthouse was built | 6 |
| Workmen returning by the Aerial Cableway to the Top of Beachy Head | 7 |
| The Sanganeb Reef Lighthouse in the Red Sea | 14 |
| The Alcatraz Lighthouse under Construction | 15 |
| The Alcatraz Lighthouse completed | 15 |
| The Thimble Shoals Light | 22 |
| Setting the Last Stone of the Beachy Head Lighthouse | 23 |
| The Hyperradial Apparatus for the Manora Point Light, Karachi, India | 48 |
| First Order Triple Flashing Light of 920 Millimetres Focal Distance for Chilang Lighthouse, China | 49 |
| Looking up the Lantern of the Needles Lighthouse | 52 |
| Fixed Apparatus of the Fourth Order for Sarawak | 53 |
| A Modern Lighthouse Siren Plant | 58 |
| The Sirens of the Lizard | 59 |
| The Acetylene Fog-Gun | 64 |
| The Rattray Head Lighthouse | 65 |
| Sule Skerry Light | 65 |
| The Eddystone, the Most Famous Lighthouse of England | 76 |
| A Thrilling Experience | 77 |
| The “Bishop,” the Western Outpost of England | 82 |
| The Wolf Rock Lighthouse | 83 |
| The Longships Light | 88 |
| The Godrevy Light, Scilly Islands | 89 |
| The Chicken Rock Lighthouse, off the Isle of Man | 92 |
| How the Skerryvore is built | 93 |
| The Skerryvore, Scotland’s Most Famous Lighthouse | 102 |
| Barra Head Lighthouse, Scotland | 103 |
| The Homes of the Keepers of the Skerryvore and Dhu-Heartach Lights | 103 |
| The Dhu-Heartach Lighthouse | 110 |
| The North Unst, Britain’s most Northerly Lighthouse | 111 |
| The North Unst Light | 116 |
| Landing Water at the North Unst | 116 |
| The Flannen Islands Light-Station | 117 |
| Building the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse | 122 |
| Building the Fastnet Tower | 123 |
| Erecting the Fastnet Lantern | 123 |
| The Fastnet, the Outpost of Europe | 128 |
| The Lantern of the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse | 129 |
| The Rothersand Lighthouse | 136 |
| The Fourteen-Foot Bank Lighthouse, built on Sand | 137 |
| The Heaux de Bréhat Light | 150 |
| Fitting the Lantern of La Jument Light | 151 |
| Preparing the Foundations of the Jument Tower | 154 |
| The Jument Light recently erected off Ushant | 155 |
| The Cape Race Lighthouse, Newfoundland | 162 |
| Cann Island Lighthouse, on the East Coast of Newfoundland | 163 |
| The Light at the Southern End of Belle Ile | 166 |
| The North Belle Ile Lighthouse | 167 |
| A Magnificent Canadian Light on the Pacific Coast | 168 |
| The West End Guardian of Sable Island | 168 |
| St. Esprit Island Light, Nova Scotia | 169 |
| The Gull Island Light, Newfoundland | 169 |
| The Batiscan Front Range Lighthouse, River St. Lawrence | 170 |
| Isle St. Thérèse Upper Range Back Lighthouse, River St. Lawrence | 170 |
| Upper Traverse Lighthouse in the River St. Lawrence | 171 |
| An “Ice Shove” upon the Back Range Light in Lake St. Peter | 171 |
| The Minot’s Ledge Light | 178 |
| Tender landing Building Material upon the Tillamook Rock | 179 |
| The Tillamook Rock Light-Station from the South | 186 |
| The Conquest of the Tillamook | 187 |
| The Terrible Tillamook Rock | 187 |
| Famous United States Lighthouses of Two Centuries | 192 |
| The Race Rock Light | 193 |
| The Carquinez Strait Light | 198 |
| A Church as a Lighthouse | 199 |
| The Bonita Point Lighthouse off the Californian Coast | 202 |
| Point Pinos Light-Station, California | 203 |
| The Farallon Rock and Light | 204 |
| The Farallon Lighthouse off San Francisco | 204 |
| The Punta Gorda Light-Station, California | 205 |
| A Lighthouse on the Great Lakes in the Grip of Winter | 210 |
| Building the Barre à Boulard Light in the River St. Lawrence | 211 |
| Colchester Reef Lighthouse, Lake Erie | 214 |
| The Latest Development in Lighthouse Engineering | 215 |
| The Electric Searchlights of the Heligoland Lighthouse | 222 |
| The Heligoland Lighthouse | 223 |
| Green Cape Lighthouse, New South Wales | 232 |
| The Sentinel of Sugar Loaf Point, New South Wales | 232 |
| “Bungaree Norah” Station, New South Wales | 232 |
| The Cape Byron Lighthouse, New South Wales | 233 |
| The Macquarie Lighthouse, South Head of Sydney Harbour | 233 |
| Painting the Troubridge Lighthouse, South Australia | 234 |
| Green Point Lighthouse, Natal | 235 |
| The Pacific Outpost of the United States of America | 235 |
| The Seven Stones Lightship | 242 |
| The San Francisco Lightship | 243 |
| The Norderney Lightship | 250 |
| The Fire Island Lightship, the Atlantic Outpost of the United States | 251 |
| Completing the One-Fathom Bank Lighthouse in the Malacca Straits | 262 |
| The One-Fathom Bank Lighthouse, Malacca Straits, in Course of Erection | 263 |
| The Platte Fougère Lighthouse under Construction | 268 |
| The Platte Fougère Lighthouse | 269 |
| Setting the Compressed-Air Reservoir at Fort Doyle | 270 |
| The Fort Doyle Siren | 271 |
| An Unattended Beacon Light placed upon a Wild Part of the Scottish Coast | 272 |
| The Gasfeten Light: a Lonely Beacon in Swedish Waters | 273 |
| The Dalén “Sun-Valve,” the Most Wonderful Invention of Modern Lighthouse Engineering | 274 |
| The Gas Accumulators Employed with the Dalén Automatic System | 275 |
| The Lagerholmen Lighthouse | 278 |
| An Unattended Beacon Light in the Straits of Magellan | 279 |
| An Automatic Lightboat | 279 |
| The Wigham Thirty-One Day Unattended Petroleum Light | 280 |
| Willson Automatic Gas and Whistling Light off Egg Island, Nova Scotia | 281 |
| The “Outer Automatic” Combined Gas and Whistling Light, Halifax, Nova Scotia | 281 |
| The Kalkgrundet, Sweden’s Latest Automatic Lightship | 293 |
| The Svinbādan Unattended Lightship in Swedish Waters | 292 |
| The Lantern used in the Wigham Automatic Petroleum Beacon | 298 |
| The “6-Bar” Floating Wigham Light in Portsmouth Harbour | 299 |
| The Pumps whereby the Oil is lifted from the Lowest Floor to the Lantern Room | 306 |
| Combined Kitchen and Living-Room in the Lighthouse | 307 |
| Keeper cleaning the Lamp after it has cooled down | 312 |
| A Lighthouse Bedroom | 313 |
About This Book
The book surveys the development, construction, and operation of coastal beacons and floating light stations, explaining engineering methods used to erect towers on rock and sand, the design of lanterns and illuminants, and the apparatus and signals employed for navigation and fog warning. It presents case studies of notable shore and offshore stations worldwide to illustrate challenges overcome, describes innovations in automated and unattended lights, and outlines the equipment of lightships. The final chapters portray daily life and duties of keepers and the maintenance practices that sustain these safety systems.