APPENDIX.
A LIST OF LIGHTS ON THE BRITISH AND IRISH
COASTS.[63]
[Lightships are indicated by the mark ([++]), pile lighthouses by (§).]
ENGLAND.
SOUTH COAST.
- 1. Bishop Rock, Scilly Isles, lat. 49° 52´; a fixed light, visible 16 miles; 147 feet
high;[64] erected 1858.
- 2. St. Agnes, Scilly Isles, lat. 49° 53´; revolving light every minute, visible
16 miles; 74 feet high; erected 1680.
- 3. [++]Scour Stones, lightship, lat. 50° 3´; two fixed lights, visible 10 and 6 miles;
fixed 1841.
- 4. Longships, off Land’s End, lat. 50° 3´ 48´´; one fixed light, visible 14 miles;
51 feet high; erected 1795.
- 5. Penzance, South Pier, lat. 50° 7´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; 22 feet
high; erected 1817.
- 6. Wolf Crag, lat. 49° 56´; one light, revolving 30 seconds; 100 feet high;
erected 1870.
- 7. Lizard, lat. 49° 57´; fixed light, visible 21 miles; 61 feet high; erected 1751.
- 8. Falmouth, St. Anthony Point, lat. 50° 8´; a revolving light every 20 seconds,
and fixed light, visible 13 miles; 62 feet high; erected 1835.
- 9. Falmouth, Prince of Wales’ Breakwater; fixed light; erected 1860.
- 10. Eddystone, lat. 50° 10´ 49´´; one fixed light, visible 13 miles; 89 feet high;
erected 1703.
- 11. Plymouth, west end of Breakwater; lat. 50° 20´; two fixed lights (one
red), visible 9 miles; 76 feet high; erected 1844.
- 12. Plymouth, Mill Bay, one fixed light, visible 12 miles.
- 13. Plymouth, West Barbican Pier-head, lat. 50° 22´; one fixed light (gas),
visible 6 miles; 20 feet high; erected 1822.
- 14. Start Point, lat. 50° 13´; two lights, revolving every minute, visible 20 miles;
92 feet high; erected 1836.
- 15. Dartmouth, Kingswear, lat. 50° 20´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles;
36 feet high; erected 1864.
- 16. Dartmouth; a flagstaff, carrying one fixed light.
- 17. Dartmouth, south part of town; one white light.
- 18. Brixham, pier-head; lat. 50° 24´; one fixed light, visible 6 miles; erected 1839.
- 19. Torquay, pier-head; lat. 50° 27´; one fixed light, visible 5 miles; erected 1852.
- 20. Teignmouth, south-west end of Dam; lat. 50° 32´; two fixed lights,
visible 6 miles; 37 feet high; erected 1845.
- 21. Lyme Regis, pier-head and Custom House, lat. 50° 43´; a bright and a
red fixed light, each visible 4 miles; erected 1853.
- 22. Portland, near the Bill, lat. 50° 31´; two fixed lights, visible 21 and
18 miles; 50 and 85 feet high; erected 1789 and 1867.
- 23. Portland, breakwater, fixed light, visible 9 miles; erected 1851.
- 24. [++]Portland, Shambles Shoal Lightship; one fixed light, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1859.
- 25. Weymouth, North Pier; two fixed green and two fixed red lights; erected
1867.
- 26. Casquets, lat. 49° 43´ 17´´; three lights, revolving every 20 seconds, and
visible for 15 miles; one light 45 feet and the others 68 feet high;
erected 1723.
- 27. Alderney Island, lat. 49° 43´; two fixed red lights (gas), visible 5 to 9 miles;
55 and 25 feet high; erected 1859.
- 28. Guernsey, St. Peter Port Old Harbour; one fixed light (gas), visible
3 miles; 24 feet high; erected 1832.
- 29. Guernsey, St. Peter Port New Harbour, lat. 49° 27´; one fixed light (gas),
visible 9 miles; 40 feet high; erected 1867.
- 30. Guernsey, Rock of Stanois, lat. 49° 26´; one red light, revolving every
45 seconds; 117 feet high; erected 1862.
- 31. Jersey, Vernclût Breakwater, lat. 49° 13´; one fixed light, visible 10 to
12 miles; 30 feet high; erected 1857.
- 32. Jersey, Gouray Pier-head, one fixed light, gas.
- 33. Jersey, Victoria Pier, St. Helier, lat. 49° 10´; one fixed light, visible
6 miles; erected 1858.
- 34. Jersey, Albert Pier, St. Helier; one fixed light (gas), visible 3 miles;
erected 1839.
- 35. Jersey, Albert Pier, St. Helier; two fixed lights, gas; erected 1837.
- 36. Jersey, Upper Pier Road, St. Helier, one fixed red light (gas), visible
3 miles; erected 1859.
- 37. Corbière Rocks, lat. 49° 10´ 40´´. New lighthouse building.
- 38. [++]Minquiers Lightship, lat. 48° 53´ 38´´; two fixed lights, visible 8 or
10 miles; fixed 1865.
- 39. Poole, north side of harbour, lat. 50° 41´; two fixed lights, visible 6 miles;
erected 1848.
- 40. Poole, North Haven Point; one fixed light.
- 41. Isle of Wight, Needle Rock, lat. 50° 39´ 42´´; one fixed light, visible
14 miles; 109 feet high; erected 1859.
- 42. Hampshire, Hurst Point, lat. 50° 42´ 26´´; two fixed lights, visible 13 and
10 miles; one, 85 feet high, erected 1812; the other, 52 feet high,
erected 1733.
- 43. Isle of Wight, Yarmouth; two fixed lights, green and white, erected
1857.
- 44. [++]Isle of Wight, Calshot Lightship; one light, revolving every minute,
visible 9 miles; fixed 1842.
- 45. Hampshire, Southampton, Royal Pier; two fixed lights; erected 1841.
- 46. Isle of Wight, Ryde Pier; one fixed light, visible 6 or 7 miles; erected
1852.
- 47. Hampshire, Stokes Bay Pier; two fixed lights; erected 1865.
- 48. Hampshire, Southsea Castle, lat. 50° 47´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles;
erected 1822.
- 49. Hampshire, Spit Sand Fort; one fixed light; erected 1866.
- 50. Hampshire, Horse Sand Fort; one fixed light; erected 1866 (temporary).
- 51. Hampshire, Noman’s Land Fort; one fixed red light; erected 1866.
- 52. Isle of Wight, Brading Haven Fort; one fixed green light; erected
1866.
- 53. Portsmouth, Clarence Pier; three lights, gas; erected 1865.
- 54. Portsmouth, Victoria Pier; two lights, gas; erected 1865.
- 55. Portsmouth, Camber; one fixed light.
- 56. Portsmouth, King’s Stairs; one fixed red light; erected 1865.
- 57. Portsmouth, Clarence Victualling Yard, pier; one red light, gas; erected
1865.
- 58. Gosport, one fixed red light; erected 1865.
- 59. [++]Warner Lightship, lat. 50° 43´; revolving every minute, visible 8 miles;
fixed 1854.
- 60. Temporary, to indicate a wreck, 1½ miles S.E. of the Warner.
- 61. [++]Nab Lightship, lat. 50° 42´ 15´´; two fixed lights, visible 8 and 6 miles;
fixed 1812.
- 62. Isle of Wight, St. Catherine’s Point, lat. 50° 34´ 30´´; one fixed light,
visible 19 miles; 122 feet high; erected 1840.
- 63. [++]Owers Lightship, lat. 50° 38´ 50´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1788.
- 64. Littlehampton, north end of pier, lat. 50° 48´; one fixed light (gas), visible
7 miles; 40 feet high; erected 1848.
- 65. Littlehampton, Outer East Pier; one fixed light; erected 1868.
- 66. Worthing Pier, lat. 50° 48´ 30´´; one fixed light; erected 1862.
- 67. Shoreham Harbour, lat. 50° 50´; two fixed lights, visible 10 miles;
38 and 5 feet high; erected 1825.
- 68. Brighton, Chain Pier, lat. 50° 49´; one fixed green light, visible 10 miles;
22 feet high; erected 1824.
- 69. Newhaven, West Pier, lat. 50° 47´; two fixed lights, visible 10 miles;
33 feet high; erected 1864.
- 70. Newhaven, East Pier, one fixed green light; erected 1862.
- 71. Beachy Head, Belle Tout Cliff, lat. 50° 44´ 15´´; revolving light every
2 minutes, visible 23 miles; 47 feet high; erected 1828.
- 72. Eastbourne, lat. 50° 45´; a single lamp.
- 73. Hastings, lat. 50° 52´; upper light on west hill, visible 12 miles; lower, on
beach, visible 5 miles; both gas.
- 74. Rye, Camber, lat. 50° 57´; two fixed lights, gas.
- 75. Rye, the pier-head; two fixed lights; erected 1860.
- 76. Rye, the Groin; one fixed light, gas; erected 1864.
- 77. Dungeness Point, lat. 50° 54´ 57´´; one fixed light (electric), visible 15
miles; 107 feet high; erected 1792.
- 78. [++]Varne Shoal Lightship, lat. 50° 56´; revolving light every 20 seconds,
visible 10 miles; fixed 1860.
- 79. Folkestone, South Pier-head, lat. 51° 4´; two fixed lights, visible 6 miles;
31 feet high; erected 1848.
- 80. Folkestone, New Pier; one fixed green light, visible 6 miles; 28 feet
high; erected 1860.
- 81. Dover, Admiralty Pier; one fixed blue light; erected 1849.
- 82. Dover, South Pier, lat. 51° 7´; three fixed red lights (gas), visible 12 miles;
erected 1852.
- 83. Dover, North Pier; one fixed red light; erected 1842.
- 84. Dover, near Clock Tower; one fixed green light; erected 1852.
- 85. South Foreland, lat. 51° 8´ 23´´; two fixed lights, visible 26 and 23 miles;
one light, 69 feet high, the other, 49 feet; erected 1793.
- 86. Deal, Iron Pier, one fixed red light; erected 1865.
- 87. [++]Goodwin Sand, South Sand Head Lightship, lat. 51° 9´ 35´´; one fixed
light, visible 10 miles; fixed 1832.
- 88. [++]Goodwin Sand, Gall Stream Lightship, lat. 51° 16´; revolving light every
20 seconds, visible 7 miles; fixed 1809.
- 89. [++]Goodwin Sand, North Sand Head Lightship, lat. 51° 19´ 23´´; three fixed
lights, visible 10 miles; fixed 1793.
SOUTH-EAST COAST.
- 90. Ramsgate, West Pier-head, lat. 51° 19´ 42´´; one fixed light, visible 7 miles;
37 feet high.
- 91. Ramsgate, East Pier-head; one light, flashing every 5 seconds, and dark
5 seconds; erected 1867.
Thames River and Mouth; Kent and Essex Banks—Nos.
92 to 115.
- [92. North Foreland, lat. 51° 22´ 28´´; one fixed light, visible 19 miles; 85 feet
high; erected 1790.
- 93. Margate, West Pier, lat. 51° 24´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; stone
column, 70 feet high; erected 1829.
- 94. [++]East Tongue Sand Lightship, lat. 51° 29´; two fixed lights, visible
10 and 4 miles; fixed 1848.
- 95. [++]Princes Channel Lightship, one revolving light every 20 seconds,
visible 10 miles; fixed 1836.
- 96. [++]West Goodwin Sand Lightship, lat. 51° 29´; one revolving light every
30 seconds, visible 10 miles; fixed 1848.
- 97. [++]Nore Lightship, lat. 51° 29´; one revolving light every 30 seconds, visible
10 miles; fixed 1732.
- 98. Sheerness, left demi-bastion, lat. 51° 26´ 48´´; one fixed light, gas;
erected 1859.
- 99. Sea Reach, Southend Pier-head; one red light; erected 1840.
- 100. §Sea Reach, Chapman Head; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; 74 feet
high; erected 1849.
- 101. §Sea Reach, Mucking Flat; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; 71 feet
high; erected 1849.
- 102. Hope Point, fort; one fixed light, for colliers only; erected 1852.
- 103. Northfleet, wharf; fixed light on iron frame; erected 1859.
EAST COAST.
- 104. [++]Mouse Lightship, lat. 51° 32´; revolving light every 20 seconds, visible
10 miles; fixed 1838.
- 105. §Maplin Sands, lat. 51° 35´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; 69 feet high;
erected 1838.
- 106. [++]Middle Swin, Lightship, lat. 51° 39´; revolving light every minute,
visible 10 miles; fixed 1837.
- 107. §Gunfleet Sand, lat. 51° 45´ 50´´; one revolving light every 30 seconds,
visible 10 miles; 72 feet high; erected 1850.
- 108. [++]Sunk Lightship, lat. 51° 49´ 28´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; fixed
1802.
- 109. [++]Kentish Knock Lightship, lat. 51° 40´ 50´´; one revolving light every
minute, visible 10 miles; fixed 1840.
- 110. [++]Galloper Lightship, lat. 51° 45´; two fixed lights, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1803.
- 111a. §Harwich, Dovercourt; two fixed lights, visible 12 and 9 miles; 45 and
27 feet high; erected 1863.
- 111b. Harwich, North Jetty; one fixed light; erected 1869.
- 112. Harwich, near Landguard Point, lat. 51° 56´ 15´´; one fixed light, visible
5 miles; 38 feet high; erected 1868.
- 113. [++]Cork Lightship, lat. 51° 46´; one revolving light every 30 seconds, visible
10 miles; fixed 1844.
- 114. [++]Shipwash Lightship, lat. 52° 1´ 30´´; one fixed red light, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1837.
- 115. Orfordness, lat. 52° 5´; two fixed lights, visible 17 and 14 miles; the
high lighthouse 79 feet, the low lighthouse 72 feet; both erected 1792.
The high lighthouse is a circular, and the lower a sixteen-sided
edifice.]
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- 116. Kessingland, cliff, lat. 52° 24´ 50´´; one fixed light; 68 feet high; erected
1867.
- 117. Lowestoft, Harbour Pier; two fixed lights; erected 1847.
- 118. Lowestoft, cliff, lat. 52° 29´ 14´´; two fixed lights, visible 16 and 11 miles;
the cliff lighthouse, 53 feet high, erected 1609; the low lighthouse, on
the Ness, 48 feet; erected 1866.
- 119. Corton Gatway; two fixed lights, one 52 feet, the other 18 feet high;
erected 1865.
- 120. [++]Corton Lightship, lat. 52° 31´ 15´´; revolving light every 20 seconds,
visible 10 miles; fixed 1862.
- 121. [++]Hewett Channel, or St. Nicholas Gate Lightship; two fixed lights,
visible 10 and 4 miles; fixed 1837.
- 122. Yarmouth, South Pier, lat. 52° 34´ 25´´; one fixed light; erected
1852.
- 123. [++]Cocker Lightship, lat. 52° 41´; revolving light every minute, visible
10 miles; fixed 1844.
- 124. Winterton, lat. 52° 43´; one fixed light, visible 14 miles; 69 feet high;
erected 1790. [The old lighthouse is mentioned in “Robinson Crusoe.”]
- 125. [++]Newarp Lightship, lat. 52° 45´; three fixed lights, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1791.
- 126. Hasborough, lat. 52° 49´; two fixed lights, visible 17 and 15 miles;
95 feet high; erected 1791.
- 127. [++]Hasborough Lightship, lat. 52° 58´; two fixed lights, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1832.
- 128. [++]Leman and Ower Lightship, lat. 53° 8´ 45´´; two lights, one revolving
every minute and one fixed, visible 10 miles; fixed 1840.
- 129. Cromer, cliff, lat. 52° 56´; one revolving light, visible 23 miles; 59 feet
high; erected 1719.
- 130. Hunstanton Point, lat. 52° 56´ 54´´; one fixed light, visible 16 miles;
63 feet high; erected 1665.
- 131. [++]Lynn Well Lightship, lat. 53° 1´ 25´´; one revolving light, every 20 seconds,
visible 10 miles; fixed 1828.
- 132. Lynn; two fixed lights; erected 1868.
- 133. Boston, Hob Hole; two fixed lights; erected 1868.
- 134. [++]Dudgeon Lightship, lat. 53° 15´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; fixed
1736.
- 135. [++]Outer Dowsing Lightship, lat. 53° 28´ 15´´; one revolving light every
20 seconds, visible 10 miles; fixed 1861.
Humber River—Nos. 136 to 150.
- [136. [++]Spurn Lightship, lat. 53° 34´; one light revolving every minute, visible
10 miles; fixed 1820.
- 137. Spurn Point, lat. 53° 34´ 44´´; two lighthouses, with fixed lights; one,
visible 15 miles, 112 feet high; the other, visible 12 miles, 76 feet high;
erected 1776.
- 138. [++]Bull Sand Lightship, lat, 53° 34´; one fixed light, visible 8 miles; fixed
1851.
- 139. Grimsby, pier-head; two fixed red lights.
- 140. Stallingborough, ferry, lat. 53° 37´; one fixed light; erected 1849.
- 141. Killingholm, lat. 53° 39´; three fixed lights, visible 11 miles; high lighthouse,
77 feet high, erected 1831; north tower, 45 feet high, erected
1836; south-east tower, 45 feet high; erected 1852.
- 142. Paull, lat. 53° 43´; one fixed light, visible 7 miles; 30 feet high; erected
1836.
- 143. [++]Hebbles Lightship, lat. 53° 44´; one fixed light, visible 5 miles; fixed
1839.
- 144. Chaldersness; one fixed light; erected 1863.
- 145. Winteringham; two fixed lights; erected 1862.
- 146. Brough; two fixed lights.
- 147. [++]Whitton Lightship; two fixed lights; fixed 1865.
- 148. Whitton, New Pier; two fixed lights; erected 1862.
- 149. Walker; one fixed blue light; erected 1863.
- 150. Faxfleetness; one fixed light; erected 1863.]
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- 151. Bridlington, North Pier-head, lat. 54° 5´ 12´´; one fixed light; erected
1852.
- 152. Flamborough Head, lat. 54° 7´; revolving light every two minutes,
visible 21 miles; 87 feet high; erected 1806.
- 153. Scarborough, Vincent Pier, lat. 54° 17´; one fixed light, visible 13 miles;
56 feet high; erected 1806.
- 154. Whitby, West Pier-head, lat. 54° 30´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles;
60 feet high; erected 1831.
- 155. Whitby, East Pier-head; one fixed light, visible 8 miles; erected 1855.
- 156. High Whitby, lat. 54° 28´ 40´´; two fixed lights, visible 23 miles; south
lighthouse, 66 feet high; north tower, 46 feet high.
River Tees—Nos. 157 to 160.
- [157. Brand Sand, lat. 54° 38´; two lighthouses, 60 and 45 feet high; erected
1839. Not used.
- 158. Fifth Buoy, lat. 54° 37´ 36´´; one fixed light on piles; erected 1866.
- 159. Seal Sand, one fixed red light.
- 160. Seaton, lat. 54° 50´; high lighthouse, ½ mile inland, 70 feet high, erected
1839; low lighthouse, on shore, fixed lights, visible 13 miles.]
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- 161. Hartlepool, North Pier-head; one fixed green light; erected 1855.
- 162. Hartlepool, Pier-head, lat. 54° 51´; one fixed light, visible 7 miles;
erected 1836.
- 163. Hartlepool, Heugh, lat. 54° 41´ 51´´; two fixed lights, visible 15 and
4 miles; 73 feet high; erected 1847.
- 164. Seaham, South Pier-head, lat. 54° 50´; one fixed light, visible 4 miles;
erected 1846.
- 165. Seaham, Red Acre Point; two lights—high one fixed, visible 14 miles;
low one, revolving every 30 seconds, visible 11 miles; 58 feet high;
erected 1857.
- 166. Sunderland, North and South Pier-heads, lat. 54° 55´; three fixed lights,
visible 13, 10, and 6 miles; north tower, 64 feet; south tower, 23 feet;
erected 1802.
- 167a. Souter Point, lat. 54° 58´ 10´´; one fixed and flashing light (electric) every
minute; 75 feet high; erected 1870.
- 167b. Tynemouth, Castle Yard, lat. 52° 1´; revolving light every minute,
visible 18 miles; 79 feet high; erected 1802. To be discontinued when
Souter Point Lighthouse is completed.
- 168. Tynemouth, North Pier Works; three fixed lights; erected 1864.
- 109. Tynemouth, North Pier; erected 1865. To be moved out as the works
advance.
- 170. Tyne, or North Shields, lat. 55° 0´ 30´´; two fixed lights, visible 16 and
13 miles; 49 and 76 feet high; erected 1808.
- 171. Blyth, lat. 55° 7´; two fixed lights, visible 11 and 7 miles; 41 and 35 feet
high; erected 1788.
- 172. Coquet Island, lat. 55° 20´; two fixed lights, visible 14 miles; square
white tower, 72 feet high; erected 1841.
- 173. Warkworth, South Pier, lat. 55° 21´; one fixed red light; erected 1848.
- 174. Farne Island, lat. 55° 37´. High lighthouse—revolving light every
30 seconds, visible 15 miles; white tower, 43 feet high; erected 1766.
Low lighthouse—fixed light, visible 12 miles; 27 feet high (octagonal
tower); erected 1810.
- 175. Longstone Rock, lat. 55° 39´; one light, revolving every 30 seconds,
visible 14 miles; 85 feet high; erected 1826.
- 176. Berwick Pier-head, lat. 55° 46´; two fixed lights, visible 12 and 8 miles;
44 feet high.
SCOTLAND.
EAST COAST.
- 177. Eyemouth, lat. 55° 52´; two fixed lights, visible 10 and 8 miles; erected 1857.
- 178. St. Abb’s Head, lat. 55° 55´; flashing light, every 10 seconds, visible
20 miles; 29 feet high; erected 1862.
- 179. Dunbar, Old Harbour, lat. 56°; one fixed light (gas), visible 5 miles;
27 feet high; erected 1857.
- 180. Dunbar, Victoria Harbour; one fixed light, gas.
Firth of Forth—Nos. 181 to 207.
- [181. Cockenzie, pier-head; one fixed green light, visible 8 miles.
- 182. Fisherrow, pier-head, lat. 55° 56´; fixed light; erected 1839.
- 183. Leith, East Pier, inner part, lat. 55° 59´; one fixed light, visible 8 miles;
19 feet high; erected 1758.
- 184. Leith, East Pier-head; one fixed green light; visible 8 miles.
- 185. Leith, West Pier; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; 19 feet high; erected
1829.
- 186. Newhaven, pier-head, lat. 55° 59´; one fixed light, visible 5 miles;
29 feet high.
- 187. Granton, pier-head; one fixed light, visible 6 miles; 40 feet high; erected
1845.
- 188. Granton, breakwater; two fixed red lights; 12 feet high.
- 189. Inchkeith Island, lat. 56° 2´; one light, revolving every minute, visible
20 miles; stone lighthouse, 58 feet high; erected 1804.
- 190. Grangemouth; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; stone tower, 30 feet
high; erected 1847.
- 191. Charleston, outer pier; one fixed light; erected 1866.
- 192. Inverkeithing, West Quay, two fixed red lights; erected 1856.
- 193. St. David; one fixed light; erected 1866.
- 194. Burntisland, East Pier-head, lat. 56° 4´; one fixed light, visible 8 miles;
25 feet high; erected 1860.
- 195. Burntisland, Ferry Pier; one fixed light; 9 feet high.
- 196. Burntisland, New Pier; one fixed light; erected 1867.
- 197. Pettycur, pier; one fixed light; erected 1854.
- 198. Kirkcaldy, East Pier-head, lat. 56° 7´; one fixed light (gas), visible
8 miles.
- 199. Dysart; one fixed green light, gas.
- 200. West Wemyss, pier-head; one fixed red light.
- 201. Buckhaven, East Pier-head, lat. 56° 10´ 6´´; one fixed light; iron tower,
9 feet high; erected 1854.
- 202. St. Monans, lat. 56° 12´ 30´´; two fixed lights, visible 6 miles.
- 203. Pittenweem, East Pier-head, lat. 56° 13´; one fixed light, visible 6 miles;
erected 1853.
- 204. Pittenweem, saw-mill, one fixed light, visible 6 miles; erected 1853.
- 205. East Anstruther, West Pier-head, lat. 56° 13´ 16´´; two fixed lights (gas),
visible 4 miles; erected 1848.
- 206. Cellardyke, lat. 56° 14´; one fixed red light, gas.
- 207. Isle of May, lat. 56° 11´ 9´´. Lighthouse on summit of island—one fixed
light, visible 21 miles; 78 feet high; erected 1816. Lighthouse on
north-east side—one fixed light, visible 15 miles; 36 feet high; erected
1844.]
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- 208. Bell Rock, lat. 56° 26 3´; one light, revolving every two minutes, visible
15 miles; 117 feet high; erected 1811.
- 209. St. Andrews, pier-head, lat. 56° 20´ 3´´; one fixed red light, visible
6 miles; 18 feet high; erected 1825.
- 210. St. Andrews, Cathedral turret; one fixed light, visible 5 miles; erected
1849.
Firth of Tay—Nos. 211 to 215.
- [211. Buddonness, lat. 56° 28´; two fixed lights, visible 15 and 12 miles;
one on tower, 104 feet high, erected 1820; the lower one, 65 feet
high.
- 212. Port-on-Craig, lat. 56° 27´; two fixed lights, visible 12 and 10 miles; one
on tower, 76 feet high; one on piles, 53 feet high; erected 1820 and
1845.
- 213. Newport, West Ferry Pier, lat. 56° 26´; two fixed lights, visible 8 and
7 miles.
- 214. Dundee Harbour, Middle and East Piers, lat. 56° 28´; two fixed lights,
visible 8 and 7 miles.
- 215. Dundee, Camperdown Docks; two fixed red lights, gas; erected 1865.]
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- 216. Arbroath, Outer Harbour, lat. 56° 33´; one fixed light, visible 8 miles;
stone tower, 22 feet high; erected 1826.
- 217. Arbroath, Inner Harbour; two fixed lights.
- 218. Ness, Scurdyness, lat. 56° 42´; one fixed light; erected 1870.[65]
- 219. Montrose, north side of harbour; two fixed lights, visible 11 and
10 miles; 65 and 39 feet high; erected 1818.
- 220. Stonehaven, harbour, lat. 56° 58´; two fixed lights, visible 8 miles;
erected 1839.
- 221. Girdleness, lat. 57° 8´ 15´´; two lights, visible 19
and 16 miles; stone lighthouse, 120 feet high;
erected 1833.
- 222. Aberdeen, North Pier-head, lat. 57° 8´ 20´´; one
fixed light, visible 8 miles; white tower, 29 feet
high; erected 1866.
- 223. Aberdeen, ferry; two fixed lights, 8 miles; erected
1842.
- 224. Buchanness, lat. 57° 28´ 15´´; one light, flashing
every 5 seconds, visible 16 miles; 115 feet high;
erected 1827.
- 225. Peterhead, South Harbour, lat. 57° 30´; one fixed
light, visible 10 miles; 26 feet high; erected
1834.
- 226. Peterhead, North Harbour; one fixed light,
visible 10 miles; 32 feet high; erected 1849.
- 227. Fraserburgh, Pier-head and Middle Pier, lat. 57°
41´ 30´´; two fixed red lights, visible 5 miles;
erected 1841.
- 228. Kinnaird Head, lat. 57° 41´ 51´´; one fixed light,
visible 15 miles; 76 feet high; erected 1787.
- 229. Macduff, North Pier-head, lat. 57° 40´; one fixed
light, visible 6 miles.
- 230. Banff, North Pier-head, lat. 57° 40´; one fixed light,
visible 8 miles, erected 1832.
- 231. Banff, New Harbour, lat. 57° 40´ 5´´; two fixed
lights; erected 1851.
- 232. Elgin and Lossiemouth, South Pier-head; one
fixed green light; erected 1838.
- 233. Covesea Skerries, Craig Head, lat. 57° 43´ 15´´; one light, revolving
every minute, visible 18 miles; stone lighthouse 18 feet high; erected
1846.
- 234. Chanonry, Point, lat. 57° 34´ 30´´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; stone
lighthouse, 42 feet high; erected 1846.
- 235. Cromarty, lat. 57° 41´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles; 42 feet high;
erected 1846.
- 236. Tarbet Ness, lat. 57° 51´ 54´´; one intermittent light, visible 2½ minutes,
dark ½ minute; visible 15 to 18 miles; tower, 134 feet high; erected
1830.
- 237. Little Ferry, lat. 57° 56´; two fixed lights.
- 238. Latheronwheel, South Head, lat. 58° 16´ 10´´; one fixed light; erected
1852.
- 239. Wick, North Pier-head, lat. 58° 26´; two fixed lights (gas), visible 8 miles;
34 feet high; erected 1851.
- 240. Noss Head, lat. 58° 28´ 38´´; one light, revolving every half minute,
visible 18 miles; 68 feet high; erected 1849.
- 241. Pentland Skerries, island, 58° 41´ 22´´; two fixed lights, visible 18 and
16 miles; high light, 118 feet high; low light, 88 feet high; 33 yards distant;
erected 1794.
- 242. Dunnet Head, lat. 58° 40´ 16´´; one fixed light, visible 23 miles; 66 feet
high; erected 1831.
- 243. Holburn, Little Head, Thurso Bay, lat. 58° 36´ 50´´; one light, flashing
every 10 seconds, visible 13 miles; 55 feet high; erected 1862.
- 244. Orkney Isles, Cantick Head, Hoy Isle, lat. 58° 47´; one light, revolving
every minute, visible 15 miles; brick lighthouse, 73 feet high;
erected 1858.
- 245. Orkney Isles, Hoy Sound, lat. 58° 56´ 9´´; two fixed lights, visible 15 and
11 miles; high light, Gremsa Isle, north-east point, 108 feet high,
erected 1851; low light, Gremsa Isle, north-west point, 38 feet high.
- 246. Orkney Isles, Kirkwall, lat. 58° 59´ 10´´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles;
27 feet high; erected 1854.
- 247. Orkney Isles, Auskerry, Stronsa Firth, lat. 59° 2´; one fixed light,
visible 16 miles; brick lighthouse, 112 feet high; erected 1867.
- 248. Orkney Isles, Start Point, Sanday Isle, lat. 59° 16´ 39´´; one fixed light,
visible 15 miles; 91 feet high; erected 1806.
- 249. Orkney Isles, North Ronaldshay, lat. 59° 23´ 15´´; one light, flashing every
10 seconds, visible 17 miles; brick lighthouse, 139 feet high; erected 1854.
- 250. Shetland Isles, Sumburgh Head, lat. 59° 51´; one fixed light, visible
22 miles; stone lighthouse, 55 feet high; erected 1821.
- 251. Shetland Isles, Bressay, lat. 60° 6´ 10´´; one light, revolving every
minute, visible 17 miles; brick lighthouse, 98 feet high; erected 1854.
- 252. Shetland Isles, Whalsey Skerries, lat. 60° 25´ 24´´; one light, revolving
every minute, visible 17 miles; brick tower, 98 feet high; erected 1854.
- 253. Shetland Isles, North Unst, lat. 60° 51´ 20´´; one fixed light, visible
21 miles; 64 feet high; erected 1854.
- 254. Cape Wrath, north-west point of Scotland, lat, 58° 37´30´´; one light,
revolving every two minutes, visible 30 miles; tower, 65 feet high;
erected 1828.
- 255. Ru Stoer, lat. 58° 14´ 10´´. Now building.
NORTH COAST.
- 256. South Rona Island, lat. 57° 34´ 31´´; one light, flashing every 12 seconds,
visible 20 miles; tower, 42 feet high; erected 1857.
- 257. Kyle Akin, Gilliean Island, lat. 57° 16´ 39´´; one fixed light, visible
11 miles; 70 feet high; erected 1857.
- 258. Oronsay Island, lat. 57° 8´ 39´´; one fixed light, visible 12 miles; 63 feet
high; erected 1857.
- 259. Hebrides, Butt of Lewis, north point, lat. 58° 30´ 40´´; one fixed light,
visible 18 miles; lighthouse tower, 120 feet high; erected 1862.
- 260. Hebrides, Stornoway, Arnish Point,[66]
lat. 58° 11´ 28´´; one light, revolving
every 30 seconds, visible 12 miles; 45 feet high; erected 1852.
WHALSEY SKERRIES LIGHTHOUSE.
- 261. Hebrides, Monach, Shillay Island, lat. 57° 31´ 34´´; two lights—the upper
flashing every 10 seconds, visible 17 miles; the lower, fixed, visible
12 miles; lighthouse tower, 133 feet high; erected 1814.
- 262. Hebrides, Scalpa, Glass Island, lat. 57° 51´ 25´´; one fixed light, visible
16 miles; tower, 100 feet high; erected 1789.
- 263. Hebrides, Ushenish, South Uist, lat. 57° 17´ 35´´; one fixed light, visible
18 miles; tower, 39 feet high; erected 1857.
- 264. Hebrides, Barra Head, Bernera Island, lat. 56° 47´ 8´´; intermittent light,
visible for 2½ minutes, dark for ⅓ minute; visible 32 miles; stone lighthouse,
60 feet high; erected 1833.
- 265. Skerryvore, lat. 56° 19´ 22´´; one light, revolving every minute, visible
17 miles; stone lighthouse, 158 feet high; erected 1844.
- 266. Dubhe Artach, lat. 56° 8´. Now building.
- 267. Ardnamurchan Point, lat. 56° 43´ 38´´; one fixed light, visible 18 miles;
lighthouse, 118 feet high; erected 1849.
- 268. Mull Sound, Runa Gal Rock, lat. 56° 38´; one fixed light, visible 12 miles;
tower, 63 feet high; erected 1857.
- 269. Lismore, Musdile Island, lat. 56° 27´ 19´´; one fixed light, visible 14 miles;
86 feet high; erected 1833.
- 270. Corran Point, Loch Eil, lat. 56° 43´ 16´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles;
42 feet high; erected 1860.
- 271. Oban, pier, lat. 56° 25´; two fixed lights; erected 1858.
- 272. Phladda Island, lat. 56° 14´ 48´´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; tower,
42 feet high; erected 1860.
- 273. Crinan Canal, lat. 56° 5´ 30´´; one fixed light, visible four miles; erected
1851.
- 274. Iron Rock,[67]
lat. 55° 52´ 30´´; one light, revolving every minute, visible
14 miles; 83 feet high; erected 1865.
- 275. Rhu Vaal, Islay Island, lat. 55° 56´ 6´´; one fixed light, visible 15 miles;
tower, 113 feet high; erected 1859.
- 276. Macarthur’s Head, lat. 56° 56´ 50´´; one fixed light, visible 17 miles;
42 feet high; erected 1861.
- 277. Rhynns, or Islay, Oversay Island, lat. 55° 40´ 20´´; one light, flashing
every 5 seconds, visible 17 miles; tower, 96 feet high; erected
1825.
- 278. Loch-in-Dail, Dune Point, Islay, lat. 55° 44´ 40´´; one fixed light, visible
12 miles; erected 1869.
- 279. Port Ellen, lat. 55° 37´ 13´´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; square
tower, 65 feet high; erected 1853.
- 280. Mull of Kintyre, lat. 55° 18´ 39´´; one fixed light, visible 22 miles; 38 feet
high; erected 1787.
- 281. Sanda, Ship Rock, lat. 55° 16´ 30´´; one fixed light, visible 17 miles;
48 feet high; erected 1850.
- 282. Davar Island, lat. 55° 25´ 45´´; one light, revolving every 30 seconds,
visible 15 miles; stone tower, 65 feet high; erected 1854.
SHIP ROCK OF SANDA LIGHTHOUSE.
- 283. Campbeltown, pier-head, lat. 55° 25´ 30´´; one fixed light.
- 284. Ardrishaig, pier-head, lat. 56° 0´ 45´´; one fixed light, visible 4 miles;
19 feet high; erected 1850.
- 285. Pladda Island, lat. 55° 26´; two fixed lights, visible 17 and 14 miles;
towers, 95 feet and 43 feet high; erected 1790.
River Clyde and Firth of Clyde—Nos. 286 to 300.
- [286. Cumbrae, Little Cumbrae Island, lat. 55° 43´ 16´´; one fixed light, visible
15 miles; tower, 36 feet high; erected 1757.
- 287. Toward Point, lat. 55° 51´ 45´´; one light, revolving every 52 seconds,
visible 10 miles; 63 feet high; erected 1812.
- 288. Cloch Point, lat. 55° 56´ 35´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; tower, 76 feet
high; erected 1797.
- 289. Greenock, lat. 55° 57´; two fixed lights, visible 8 miles; erected 1834.
- 290. Greenock, quay; one fixed light, visible 4 miles; 20 feet high; erected
1829.
- 291. Greenock, Garvel Point; one fixed light, visible 7 miles; erected 1867.
- 292. Port-Glasgow, beacon, lat. 55° 56´ 15´´; one fixed red light, visible 3
miles; erected 1861.
- 293. Broomielaw; one fixed light, gas.
- 294. Cardross; one fixed red light, visible 4 miles; black stone, 34 feet
high; erected 1849.
- 295. [++]Garmoyle Lightship; one fixed light; fixed 1868.
- 296. Dumbuck; one fixed light; erected 1868.
- 297. Bowling Bay; one fixed light, on iron tower, visible 2 miles; erected
1849.
- 298. Bowling, Donald’s Quay; one fixed red and bright light; 16 feet high;
erected 1869.
- 299. Park Quay; one fixed light; erected 1869.
- 300. North Bank, opposite New-Shot Island; one fixed red light, on iron
tower, erected 1869.]
-
- 301. Ardrossan, breakwater, lat. 55° 38´ 27´´; one fixed light, visible 5 miles;
tower, 23 feet high; re-built 1856.
- 302. Saltcoats, pier, lat 55° 37´ 52´´; one fixed light, visible 6 miles; 18 feet
high; erected 1840.
- 303. Troon Harbour, lat. 55° 32´ 55´´; two lights, intermittent, 40 seconds
bright and 20 seconds eclipsed (gas), visible 9 miles; 25 feet high;
erected 1827 at inner end of pier; and fixed red light, visible 6 miles,
25 feet high, at pier-head; erected 1848.
- 304. Ayr Harbour, north pier, lat. 55° 28´ 10´´; three fixed lights—a tide light,
visible 4 miles; erected 1790; two lights in tower, 62 feet high, visible
16 miles; erected 1826, improved 1866.
- 305. Loch Ryan, Cairn Ryan Point, lat. 54° 57´ 45´´; one fixed light, visible
10 miles; 50 feet high; erected 1847.
- 306. Stranraer, lat. 54° 54´ 40´´; three lights on pier, one visible 9 miles.
- 307. Corsewall Point, Loch Ryan, lat. 55° 0´ 29´´; one light, revolving every 2
minutes, visible 15 miles; lighthouse tower, 110 feet high; erected 1817.
- 308. Port-Patrick, lat. 54° 50´ 20´´; one fixed light, visible 8 miles; stone
tower, 30 feet high; erected 1790, re-lighted 1856.
- 309. Galloway Mull, south point, lat. 54° 38´ 9´´; one intermittent light,
visible 23 miles, eclipsed 30 seconds in every 3 minutes; stone lighthouse,
86 feet high; erected 1830.
- 310. Little Ross Island, lat. 54° 56´; one light, flashing every 5 seconds, visible
18 miles; tower, 65 feet high; erected 1843.
- 311. Annan River, lat. 54° 57´ 50´´; one fixed light; erected 1841.
ENGLAND.
WEST COAST.
- 312. Skinburness, near Silloth, lat. 54° 52´ 30´´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles;
- 313. §Lee Scar, lat. 54° 52´; one fixed light, visible 6 miles; 45 feet high;
erected 1841.
- 314. [++]Solway Lightship, lat 54° 48´; one fixed light, red; erected 1841.
- 315. Maryport, south wooden pier, lat 54° 43´; one fixed light (gas), visible
6 miles; erected 1796.
- 316. Maryport, south stone pier; one fixed light, visible 12 miles; 35 feet
high; erected 1834.
- 317. Maryport, jetty; one fixed light, visible 3 miles; erected 1857.
- 318. Maryport, north tongue; one fixed light (gas), visible 3 miles; erected
1857.
- 319. Workington, John Pier and wooden pier, lat. 54° 39´; one fixed light,
visible 11 miles; 23 feet high; built in 1825, improved 1866.
- 320. Harrington, pier-head, lat. 54° 37´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; iron
pedestal, 36 feet high; erected 1797.
- 321. Whitehaven, West Pier-head, lat. 54° 33´; one light, revolving every two
minutes, visible 19 miles; tower, 47 feet high; erected 1821.
- 322. Whitehaven, North Pier-head; one fixed light.
- 323. Whitehaven, Old Quay; one fixed light.
- 324. St. Bees Head, lat. 54° 30´ 50´´; one fixed light, visible 25 miles; tower,
55 feet high; erected 1866.
ISLE OF MAN.
- 325. Ayre Point, lat, 54° 24´ 56´´; one light, revolving every 2 minutes, and
visible 15 miles; tower 99 feet high; erected 1818.
- 326.} Peel, lat. 54° 13´; one fixed light at entrance, visible 8 miles; erected
- 327.} 1811; and fixed light (argand) on breakwater; erected 1865.
- 328. Port Erin; one fixed green light; erected 1867.
- 329. Calf of Man, Calf Island, lat. 54° 3´; two lights, revolving every 2
minutes, visible 24 and 22 miles; one 70, the other 53 feet high; erected
1818.
- 330. St. Mary Port, pier-head, lat. 54° 4´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles;
18 feet high; erected 1812.
- 331. Castletown, pier-head, lat. 54° 5´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles; 18 feet
high; erected 1812.
- 332. Derby Haven, Fort Island, lat. 54° 5´; one fixed light, visible 6 miles;
45 feet in height (during the fishing season only, Aug. 12th to Oct. 10th.)
- 333. Derby Haven, end of breakwater; one fixed light.
- 334. Douglas Head, lat. 54° 9´; one fixed light, visible 14 miles; tower, 65
feet high; erected 1832.
- 335a. Douglas, Old Pier-head, lat. 54° 10´; one fixed red light, visible 6 miles;
43 feet high; built 1796; re-built 1865.
- 335b. Douglas, Promenade Pier; one fixed blue light; erected 1869.
- 336. Douglas, new landing-pier; one fixed green light; erected 1868.
- 337a. and 337b. Ramsay, South Pier-head, lat. 54° 20´; fixed red light, visible
4 miles; 27 feet high; (dark stone tower) erected 1845; North Pier-head,
one fixed light, visible 9 miles; erected 1868.
- 338. [++]Bahama Bank Lightship, lat. 54° 20´; two fixed lights, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1848.
ENGLAND.
WEST COAST.
Morecambe Bay—Nos. 339 to 345.
- [339. Walney Island, lat. 54° 2´ 56´´; two lights, one revolving every minute
and one fixed, visible 13 miles; stone tower, 60 feet high; erected 1790.
- 340. [++]Morecambe Bay Lightship, lat. 53° 54´; one revolving light, flashing
every 30 seconds, visible 10 miles; fixed 1863.
- 341. Poulton, stone pier, lat. 54° 4´ 20´´; one fixed light, visible 8 miles; stone
tower, 50 feet high; erected 1851.
- 342. [++]Lightship, lat. 54° 1´ 20´´; one fixed red light; fixed 1854.
- 343. Lune River, Cockerham Promontory, and Plover Scar Rock, lat. 53° 59´;
two lights, distance 834 yards; one lighthouse of wood, erected 1847;
the other of stone.
- 344. §Wyre River, north-east elbow of North Wharf bank, lat. 53° 57´ 14´´; one
fixed light, visible 10 miles; erected 1840.
[68]
- 345. Fleetwood, lat. 53° 55´ 36´´; two fixed lights, visible 13 and 9 miles;
upper, stone lighthouse, and red lantern; lower, stone colour; erected
1841.]
-
- 346. Ribble River, north-east of entrance, lat. 53° 44´ 38´´; one intermittent
light, every 4 minutes, visible 12 miles; erected 1865.
- 347. Ribble River, New Pier; light shown about 2 hours before to 1½ hours
after high water.
- 348. Ribble River, Lytham, lat. 53° 44´ 10´´; one fixed light.
Mersey and Dee Rivers, Entrance—Nos. 349 to 361.
- [349. [++]Liverpool, North-west Lightship; lat. 53° 29´ 30´´; one light, revolving
every minute, visible 11 miles; fixed 1814.
- 350. [++]Formby Lightship, lat. 53° 31´ 40´´; one fixed light, visible 8 miles;
fixed 1834.
- 351. [++]Crosby Lightship, lat. 53° 30´ 40´´; three fixed lights, visible 8 miles;
fixed 1840.
- 352. Crosby Point, lat. 53° 31´ 25´´; one fixed light, visible 12 miles; lighthouse
tower, 74 feet high; erected 1856.
- 353. Air Point, lat. 53° 22´; one fixed light, visible ten miles; circular tower,
65 feet high; erected 1776.
- 354. Hoylake, lat. 53° 23´ 40´´; two fixed lights, visible 13 and 11 miles;
towers, 64 feet and 42 feet high; erected 1763.
- 355. Leasowe, lat. 53° 24´ 49´´; one fixed light, visible 15 miles; lighthouse
110 feet high; erected 1763.
- 356. Bidston, lat. 53° 24´; one fixed light, visible 23 miles; stone lighthouse.
68 feet high; erected 1771.
- 357. Rock, lat. 53° 26´ 43´´; one light, revolving every minute, visible 14 miles;
94 feet high; erected 1830.
- 358. Birkenhead, New Ferry Pier; one fixed light.
- 359. Runcorn, Old Quay, lat. 53° 20´; one fixed light; erected 1863.
- 360. [++]Runcorn Lightship; one fixed light; fixed 1866.
- 361. Woodside Ferry; one fixed light; erected 1863.]
-
- 362. Great Orme Head, North Point, lat. 53° 20´ 35´´; one fixed light, visible
24 miles; square castellated stone lighthouse; erected 1862.
- 363. Menai, Trwyn-Du Point, lat. 53° 18´ 51´´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles;
circular castellated tower, 96 feet high; erected 1837.
- 364. Beaumaris, pier, lat. 53° 15´ 45´´; one fixed red light.
- 365. Lynus Point, lat. 53° 25´; one intermittent light, visible 8 seconds, obscured
2 seconds, visible 16 miles; castellated tower, 36 feet high;
erected 1835.
- 366. Amlwch Port, north pier, lat. 53° 25´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles;
erected 1817.
- 367. Skerries Island, lat. 53° 25´ 18´´; one fixed light, visible 16 miles; circular
tower, 75 feet high; erected 1714.
- 368. Holyhead, New Breakwater; one fixed light, visible 4 miles; erected 1850.
- 369. Holyhead, wooden jetty; one fixed light; erected 1864.
- 370. Holyhead, inner harbour, port side; one fixed light, green; erected 1866.
- 371. Holyhead, inner harbour, starboard side; one fixed light, red; erected 1866.
- 372a. Stack Rock, off north-west point of Holyhead Island, lat. 53° 18´; one
light, revolving every 2 minutes, visible 20 miles; circular tower, 84 feet
high; erected 1809. [“During foggy weather, a bell is sounded, and a
smaller bright light, revolving in 1½ minutes, is occasionally shown
about 40 feet above the sea, and 30 yards north of the main lighthouse.
A gun is also fired from the North Stack every hour and half-hour
during foggy weather; and, when the mail packets are expected, every
quarter of an hour, from 10.45. A.M. till 45 minutes past noon; and
again from 11.45 P.M. till 1.45 A.M.”]
- 372b. [++]Caernarvon Lightship, lat. 53° 5´ 45´´; one light, revolving every 20
seconds, and visible 10 miles; fixed 1870.
- 373. Caernarvon, Llanddwyn Island, lat. 53° 8´; one fixed light, visible
5 miles; erected 1845.
- 374. Caernarvon, pier-head; one fixed light; erected 1858.
- 375. Bardsey Island, lat. 52° 45´; one fixed light, visible 17 miles; square
white tower, 99 feet high; erected 1821.
- 376. Aberystwith, pier-head, lat. 52° 25´; two fixed lights; erected 1864.
- 377. [++]Cardigan Bay Lightship, lat. 52° 22´ 30´´; one light, revolving every
30 seconds, and visible 9 miles; fixed 1860.
- 378. South Bishop Rock, lat. 51° 51´; revolving light, every 20 seconds;
36 feet high; erected 1839.
- 379. Smalls Rock, lat. 51° 43´ 20´´; one fixed light, visible 15 miles; circular
tower, 141 feet high; erected 1778.
Bristol Channel—Nos. 380 to 414.
- [380. St. Ann’s Point, Milford Haven, lat 51° 41´; two fixed lights, high
lighthouse, visible 20 miles; circular tower, 75 feet high; erected 1714;
low lighthouse, visible 18 miles, octagonal, 203 yards south-east of
former, 42 feet high.
- 381. New Quay; one fixed light.
- 382a. Milford Haven, dockyard; two fixed lights, red; 46 feet and 23 feet
high; erected 1862.
- 382b. [++]Neyland Point Lightship; one fixed light; erected 1868.
- 383. Caldy Island, lat. 51° 37´ 56´´; one fixed light, visible 20 miles; circular
tower, 52 feet high; erected 1829.
- 384. Tenby, pier-head; one fixed red light; erected 1856.
- 385. Saundersfoot, pier-head, lat. 51° 42´; one fixed red light.
- 386. Pembrey Harbour, lat 51° 41´; one fixed light, visible 9 miles.
- 387. Llanelly, south end of breakwater, lat. 51° 40´; one fixed light; 50 feet
high; erected 1850.
- 388. §Llanelly, Whiteford Point; one fixed light, visible 7 miles; erected 1854.
- 389. [++]Helwick Lightship, lat 51° 31´; one light, revolving every minute.
- 390. Mumbles Island, lat. 51° 34´ 3´´; one fixed light, visible 15 miles; tower,
56 feet high; erected 1798.
- 391. Swansea, South Pier-head, lat. 51° 37´; one fixed light, visible 5 miles;
20 feet high; erected 1803.
- 392. Swansea, South Dock entrance; two red lights; erected 1859.
- 393. Swansea, North Dock entrance; two fixed lights; erected 1860.
- 394. Swansea, New Cut bridge; one fixed light.
- 395. [++]Scarweather Lightship; one light, revolving every 20 seconds; fixed
1862.
- 396. Porthcawl Harbour, south-east end of breakwater; one fixed light;
erected 1860.
- 397. Porthcawl Harbour, north-west end of breakwater; two fixed red lights;
erected 1861.
- 398. Nash Point, lat. 51° 24´; high lighthouse, one fixed light, visible 19 miles;
111 feet high: low lighthouse, one fixed light, visible 17 miles; 60 feet
high; erected 1832.
- 399. [++]Breaksea Lightship, lat. 51° 19´ 48´´; two lights, one revolving with a
flash every 15 seconds, one fixed; fixed 1866.
- 400. Flatholm Island, lat. 51° 22´; one fixed light, visible 18 miles; circular
lighthouse, 99 feet high; erected 1737.
- 401. Cardiff, docks, lat. 51° 27´ 48´´; two fixed red lights.
- 402. Usk, Newport, lat. 51° 32´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; tower,
57 feet high; erected 1867.
- 403. Briton Ferry Dock; movable tide lights.
- 404. [++]English and Welsh Grounds Lightship, lat. 51° 26´ 30´´; one light,
revolving every minute, visible 10 miles; fixed 1838.
- 405. Portskewet, pier-head; one fixed red light; erected 1868.
- 406. New Passage, Charstone Rock; one fixed red light; erected 1868.
- 407. Avon, east side of entrance, lat. 51° 30´; one fixed light, visible 13 miles;
octagonal tower, 85 feet high; erected 1840.
- 408. Portishead, pier; two fixed lights.
- 409. Clevedon, pier-head; one fixed light, visible 7 miles; erected 1869.
- 410. Bridgewater, or Burnham, east side of entrance of Parret River,
lat. 51° 15´; two lights—upper, intermittent, visible (15 miles) for
3½ minutes, then suddenly eclipsed ½ a minute; lower light, fixed,
visible 9 miles; high lighthouse, 99 feet high; low lighthouse, 36 feet
high; erected 1832.
- 411. Watchet Harbour; one fixed red light, visible 4 miles; sexangular
tower, 22 feet high; erected 1862.
- 412. Ilfracombe, Lantern Hill, lat. 51° 13´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles;
29 feet high, gas.
- 413. Bideford, Braunton Sands, lat. 51° 4´; two fixed lights, 311 yards apart;
86 and 15 feet high; erected 1820.
- 414. Lundy Island, lat. 51° 10´ 7´´; two lights, upper revolving every two
minutes, the lower fixed, visible 31 miles; tower, 96 feet high; erected
1820.]
-
- 415. Hartland Point, lat. 51° 1´ 24´´; lighthouse proposed.
- 416. Trevose Head, lat. 50° 32´ 55´´; two fixed lights, visible 20 and 17 miles;
tower, 86 feet high; erected 1847.
- 417. Godrevy Island, lat. 50° 14´; two lights, flashes every 10 seconds; octagonal
stone tower, 86 feet high; erected 1859.
- 418. Padstow, quay-head; one fixed light; erected 1868.
- 419. Hayle, lat. 50° 11´ 30´´; two fixed lights, visible six miles; erected 1840.
- 420. St. Ives, outer and inner pier; two fixed lights, visible 10 and 9 miles;
erected 1860.
- 421. St. Ives, pier-head; one fixed light; erected 1831.
IRELAND.
SOUTH AND EAST COASTS.
- 422. Fastnet, lat. 51° 23´ 18´´; one light, revolving every two minutes, visible
18 miles; circular tower, 92 feet high; erected 1854.
- 423. Kinsale, Old Head, lat. 51° 36´ 11´´; one fixed light, visible 21 miles;
tower, 100 feet high; erected 1683.
- 424. Kinsale, Fort Charles, lat. 51° 41´ 48´´; one fixed light, visible 14 miles;
48 feet high; erected 1804.
- 425. Cork Harbour,
[69] Roche Point, lat. 51° 47´ 33´´;
two lights, one revolving
every minute, and one fixed, visible 10 and 8 miles; 49 feet high;
erected 1817.
- 426. §Cork Harbour, Spit Bank, lat. 51° 50´ 41´´; one fixed light, visible
5 miles; erected 1848, repaired 1853.
- 427. Cork Harbour, Lough Mahon, lat. 51° 53´; one fixed light; erected
1859.
- 428. Cork Harbour, Donkathel, lat. 51° 54´; one fixed green light.
- 429. Cork Harbour, Black Rock Castle, lat. 51° 54´; one fixed light; erected 1863.
- 430. Cork Harbour, King’s Quay, lat. 51° 53´; one fixed light, gas.
- 431. Cork Harbour, Tivoli, lat. 51° 54´; one fixed light, gas.
- 432. Ballycottin, Outer Island, lat. 51° 49´ 30´´; a flash every 10 seconds,
visible 18 miles; tower, 50 feet high; erected 1850.
- 433. Youghal, lat. 51° 56´ 34´´; one fixed light, 6 miles; erected 1852.
- 434. Minehead, lat. 51° 59´ 33´´; intermittent light, every minute, visible
21 miles; lighthouse, 68 feet high; erected 1850.
EAST AND NORTH COASTS.
- 435. Dungarvan, Ballinacourty Point; one fixed light, visible 10 miles;
lighthouse, 44 feet high; erected 1858.
- 436. Waterford, Hook Town, lat. 52° 7´ 25´´; one fixed light, visible 16 miles;
tower, 115 feet high; erected 1791.
- 437. Waterford, Dunmore Pier-head, lat. 52° 9´; one fixed light, visible
5 miles; lighthouse, 51 feet high; erected 1826.
- 438. Waterford, Duncannon Fort, lat. 52° 13´ 13´´; two fixed lights, visible
10 miles; 25 feet high; erected 1774.
- 439. Waterford, Duncannon; one fixed light, visible 16 miles; tower, 35 feet
high; erected 1838.
- 440. §Waterford, Spit off Passage Point; one fixed light; erected 1867.
- 441. [++]Saltees, Coningbeg Rock Lightship, lat. 52° 2´ 25´´; two fixed lights,
visible 10 and 8 miles; fixed 1824.
- 442. Taskar Rock, lat. 52° 12´ 9´´; light revolving every 2 minutes, visible
15 miles; circular tower, 110 feet high; erected 1815.
- 443. [++]Lucifer Shoals Lightship, lat. 52° 21´ 30´´; one fixed light, visible
8 miles; fixed 1868.
- 444. [++]Blackwater Bank Lightship, lat. 52° 30´ 10´´; one fixed light, visible
10 miles; fixed 1857.
- 445. [++]Arklow Lightship, lat. 52° 40´ 45´´; revolving every minute, visible
10 miles; fixed 1834.
- 446. [++]Arklow Lightship, lat. 52° 53´; two fixed lights, visible 10 and 8 miles;
fixed 1867.
- 447. Wicklow Head, lat. 52° 57´ 50´´; intermittent light, 10 seconds bright
and dark 3, visible 16 miles; tower 46 feet high; erected 1818, altered
1867.
- 448. [++]Codling Bank Lightship, lat. 53° 4´ 40´´; revolving every 20 seconds,
visible 9 miles; fixed 1867.
Dublin Bay—Nos. 449 to 456.
- [449. [++]Kish Lightship, lat. 53° 18´ 48´´; revolving every minute, visible 10 miles;
fixed 1811. [“In foggy weather a gong is sounded, and a gun fired with
two discharges in quick succession, commencing at 5 P. M. and at 6 P. M.,
and continued every fifteen minutes until the mail packets due from
Holyhead have fired a gun in reply, when a signal gun from lightship
is fired in answer.”]
- 450. Kingstown, East Pier-head, lat. 53° 18´; revolving every 30 seconds,
visible 9 miles; lighthouse, 41 feet high; erected 1822.
- 451. Kingstown, West Pier-head; one fixed light; granite tower, 29 feet high;
erected 1845.
- 452. Poolbeg, south wall, lat. 53° 20´ 30´´; two fixed lights, visible 12 miles,
one upper and one lower; lighthouse, 63 feet high; erected 1768.
- 453. Poolbeg, north wall, lat. 53° 21´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; iron
tower, 28 feet high; erected 1820.
- 454. Poolbeg, one fixed light; erected 1861. (No particulars given.)
- 455. Bailey, south-east point Howth peninsula, lat. 53° 21´ 40´´; one fixed
light, visible 15 miles; 42 feet high; erected 1671.
- 456. Howth, pier-head, lat. 53° 24´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles; 37 feet
high; erected 1818.]
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- 457. Balbriggan, pier, lat. 53° 36´ 45´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; 53 feet
high; erected 1769.
- 458. Rockabill, lat. 53° 35´ 45´´; one light, flashes every 12 seconds, visible
18 miles; circular gray stone lighthouse, 105 feet high; erected 1860.
- 459. Drogheda, sand hills, lat. 53° 43´; three fixed lights, visible 6 to 7 miles;
on timber framework, 30 feet high; erected 1842.
- 460. §Dundalk, entrance of channel, lat. 53° 58´ 40´´; flashes every 15 seconds,
visible 9 miles; erected 1855.
- 461. Dundalk; two fixed lights; erected 1861. (No particulars given.)
- 462. Carlingford, Haulbowline Rock, lat 54° 1´; two fixed lights, visible
15 miles; tower, 111 feet high; erected 1823.
- 463. Carlingford, Greenore Point, lat. 54° 1´ 55´´; revolving every 45 seconds,
visible 9 miles; 41 feet high; erected 1830.
- 464. Dundrum Bay, St. John’s Point, lat. 54° 13´ 10´´; one intermittent light,
every minute, visible 12 miles; erected 1844.
- 465. Ardglass Harbour, lat. 54° 15´ 10´´; one fixed light, visible 6 miles;
erected 1816.
- 466. South Rock, lat. 54° 23´ 55´´; revolving every 90 seconds, visible 12 miles;
60 feet high; erected 1797.
- 467. Donaghadee Harbour, lat. 54° 38´ 45´´; one fixed light, visible 12 miles;
53 feet high; erected 1836.
- 468. Copeland Island, lat. 54° 41´ 44´´; one fixed light, visible 16 miles; tower,
52 feet high; erected 1796.
NORTH COAST.
- 469. Belfast Bay, Hollywood Bank, lat. 54° 39´; one fixed light, visible
5 miles; erected 1848.
- 470. Larne Lough, Farrs Point, lat 54° 51´ 7´´; one fixed light, visible 11 miles;
tower, 50 feet; erected 1839.
- 471. Maidens Rocks, lat. 54° 55´ 47´´; two fixed lights, visible 14 and 13 miles;
one tower 76 feet, and the other 68 feet high, 800 yards apart; erected 1829.
- 472. Rathlin Island, Altacarry Head; lat. 55° 18´ 10´´; two lights—the upper,
intermittent, bright 50 seconds, dark 10; the lower fixed—visible
21 miles; lighthouse, 88 feet high; erected 1856.
Lough Foyle—Nos. 473 to 483.
- [473. Inishowen, Dunagree Point, lat. 55° 13´ 38´´; two lights, east and west,
183 yards apart; visible 13 miles; towers, 49 feet high; erected 1837.
- 474. Warren Point; one fixed red light; erected 1801.
- 475. §Red Castle; one fixed light; erected 1852.
- 476. §White Castle; one fixed light; erected 1848.
- 477. §Ture; one fixed light; erected 1850.
- 478. §Cunnyberry, one fixed light; erected 1848.
- 479. Culmore Point; one fixed light, on mast; erected 1848.
- 480. Culkeeragh; one fixed light; erected 1851.
- 481. Boom Hall; one fixed light; red brick tower; erected 1859.
- 482. [++]Rosse Bay Lightship; one fixed light; fixed 1859.
- 483. Rock Mill (near); one fixed light, on mast; erected 1859.]
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- 484. Inistrahull Island, lat. 55° 25´ 55´´; revolving every 2 minutes; 42 feet
high; erected 1812.
- 485. Lough Swilly, Fanad Point, lat. 55° 16´ 33´´; one fixed light, visible
14 miles; 26 feet high; erected 1816.
- 486. Tory Island, lat. 55° 16´ 26´´; one fixed light, visible 16 miles; lighthouse,
87 feet high; erected 1832.
- 487. Aranmore Island, Rinrawros Point, lat. 55° 0´ 52´´; one light, flashes
every 20 seconds, visible 18 miles; circular tower, 76 feet high; erected
1865.
WEST COAST.
- 488. Rathlin-o-Birne Island, lat. 54° 39´ 47´´; one fixed light, visible 16
miles; circular tower, with dome, 63 feet high; erected 1856, altered 1864.
- 489. Killybegs, St. John´s Point, lat. 54° 34´ 8´´; one fixed light, visible
14 miles; 47 feet high; erected 1831.
- 490. Killybegs, Rotten Island, lat. 54° 36´ 51´´; one fixed light, visible 12 miles;
47 feet high; erected 1838.
- 491. Sligo Bay, Black Rock, lat. 54° 18´; one fixed light, visible 13 miles;
lighthouse tower, 47 feet high; erected 1838.
- 492. Sligo Bay, Oyster Island, lat. 54° 18´ 5´´; two fixed lights, visible 17 miles;
each tower 43 feet high; erected 1837.
- 493. Broadhaven, Gubacashel Point, lat. 54° 16´; one fixed light, visible
12 miles; 50 feet high; erected 1855.
- 494. Eagle Rock, lat. 54° 17´; two fixed lights, visible 20 miles; one 87 feet,
the other 64 feet high; 132 yards distant.
- 495. Black Rock, lat. 54° 4´ 10´´; revolving light, with flash every 30 seconds,
visible 23 miles; circular tower, 50 feet high; erected 1864.
- 496. Blacksod Point, lat. 54° 5´ 54´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; granite
tower and dwelling, 41 feet high; erected 1866.
- 497. Clare Island, lat. 53° 49´ 30´´; one fixed light, visible 27 miles; 39 feet
high; erected 1806.
- 498. Inishgort, lat. 53° 49´ 34´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; 26 feet high;
erected 1827.
- 499. Slyne Head, Illaunimmul Island, lat. 53° 23´ 58´´; two lights, one revolving
every 2 minutes, visible 15 miles; one fixed, visible 14 miles;
each tower 79 feet high, 142 yards apart; erected 1836.
Galway Bay—Nos. 500 to 502.
- [500. Eeragh Island, West Point, lat. 53° 8´ 55´´; one light, revolving every
3 minutes, visible 16 miles; circular tower, 101 feet; erected 1857.
- 501. Inisheer, South Point, lat. 53° 2´ 40´´; one fixed light, visible 15 miles;
circular tower, 112 feet high; erected 1856.
- 502. Mutton Island, lat. 53° 15´ 13´´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; 34 feet
high; erected 1817.]
River Shannon—Nos. 503 to 507.
- [503. Loophead, lat. 52° 33´ 38´´; one fixed light, visible 22 miles; circular white
tower, 75 feet high; erected 1853.
- 504. Kilcradan Point, lat. 52° 34´ 47´´; one fixed light, visible 16 miles; 43 feet
high; erected 1824.
- 505. Scattery Island, Rinana Point. Now building.
- 506. Tarbert, Rock, lat. 52° 35´ 30´´; one fixed light, visible 13 miles; 54 feet
high; erected 1834.
- 507. Beeves, Rock, lat. 52° 39´; one fixed light, visible 10 miles; 40 feet high;
erected 1854.]
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- 508. Tralee, Samphire Island, lat. 52° 16´ 14´´; one fixed light, visible 5 miles;
circular lighthouse, erected 1834.
- 509. Tearaght Island, lat. 52° 4´. Now building. Will be lighted, probably,
in the autumn of 1870.
- 510. Valentia, Cromwell´s Fort, lat. 51° 56´; one fixed light, visible 12 miles;
lighthouse 48 feet high; erected 1841.
- 511. Skelligs Rock, lat. 51° 46´ 14´´; two fixed lights, the upper visible 25 miles,
and lighthouse 48 feet high; the lower, visible 18 miles, and 46 feet
high. The upper will be extinguished when Tearaght is completed.
- 512. Calf Rock, lat. 51° 34´ 10´´; one light, flashing every 15 seconds; visible
17 miles; circular tower, painted red, with white belt; 102 feet high;
erected 1866.
- 513. Bantry Bay, Roancarrig Island, lat. 51° 39´ 10´´; one fixed light, visible
12 miles; circular tower, 62 feet high; erected 1847.
- 514. Crookhaven, Rock Island Point, lat. 51° 28´ 35´´; one fixed red light,
visible 10 miles; lighthouse, 45 feet high; improved 1867.