APPENDIX, No. VI.
ACCOUNT OF THE EXPENSE OF ERECTING THE SKERRYVORE LIGHTHOUSE AND OF THE SUBSIDIARY WORKS.

Establishment at Hynish.
  Wages of the different workmen quarrying and dressing the stones, and building the dwelling-houses, barracks, storehouses, inclosure and subdivision dykes, draining and trenching the ground, &c., at Hynish, and the wages of joiners preparing and fitting up the joiner work, £2996 7 7    
  Timber, pavement, bricks, ironmongery, glass, &c., &c., used in the erections, 1376 16 9 ¹⁄₂
  Slater, plaster, and plumber work of the houses, 436 1 0  
  Paid the tenant of Hynish for a barn which was used as a barrack to accommodate the workmen when they first landed at Tyree, 13 0 0  
  £4822 5 4 ¹⁄₂
  Note.—Although these buildings had been erected for the purposes of the works, yet the greater part of them were designed to serve as part of the permanent accommodation required at Tyree in connection with the Lighthouse Establishment, and have accordingly been so applied.  
Rock Barrack, No. 1.
  Cost of the barrack on the Rock, which was destroyed, including the contractor’s account for extra work, &c., £742 17 7    
  Lead for running up the bats and for other purposes about the barrack, 14 11 6 ¹⁄₂
  A smith’s forge, bellows, anvil, and smith’s tools used at Rock in erecting the barrack, 32 19 1 ¹⁄₄
  790 8 2 ³⁄₄
Rock Barrack, No. 2.
  Cost of the carpenter and joiner work on the second barrack, the expense of fitting and erecting it at Greenock, the wages of four joiners and a smith, furnished by the contractor to assist in its erection at Skerryvore, including sundry other minor charges, £911 14 4    
  Cost of the iron-work of the barrack, 369 11 8  
  Lead for running up the bats and protecting the timber of cooking apartment, &c., 29 11 10  
  Cooking apparatus for the cook-room of barrack, sheet-iron smoke tube, cooking utensils, &c., 54 16 6  
  Bedding for beds of barrack, 90 9 1  
  Expense of upholding and making sundry small repairs on the barrack since its erection, 22 18 6 ¹⁄₂
  1479 1 11 ¹⁄₂
  Cost of the furniture, bedding, and other utensils required for the dwelling-houses, barracks, &c., connected with the different establishments of the works,   830 19 2  
Establishment at North Bay.
  Wages of the quarriers, masons, joiners, &c., quarrying stones, building the barracks, storehouses, &c., &c., and fitting up the joiner work, £378 11 9    
  Timber and other furnishings for the erections, the expense of making the doors and windows, including furnishings required for erecting the habitable part of Skerryvore Barrack at North Bay as a temporary accommodation for the workmen, and sundry other charges, 361 4 7  
  Sundry furnishings—such as utensils for provision store, smithy, &c., 13 2 5  
  752 18 9  
Quarries at North Bay.
  Cost of rails and timber for railway and timber, &c., for shipping-pier at North Bay, £131 5 1    
  Wages of workmen who were employed at quarries in North Bay, quarrying the lighthouse blocks, constructing the pier, railway, &c., 1752 5 3  
  1883 10 4  
Temporary Wharf and Railway at the Skerryvore Rock.
  Cost of timber used in the wharf and railway at the Skerryvore Rock, £103 18 6    
  Iron bats, bolts, &c., for fastening the timber, rails for railway, and sundry furnishings connected with an apparatus for blasting under water, 119 7 6  
  Wages of the workmen constructing the railway, fastening the timber of wharf, &c., 34 10 5  
  257 16 5  
Excavation at Rock and Platform, &c.
  Wages of the workmen excavating the foundation for the Lighthouse Tower, on the Skerryvore Rock, £609 2 3 ¹⁄₂  
  A portable forge, and other smith’s tools, used at the rock for this work, 21 15 10  
  Wages of the workmen excavating the site of a platform at the workyard in Hynish, and quarrying and dressing stones for sill of platform, £107 16 5  
  Cost of freestone from Garscube Quarry, Glasgow, for part of the sill of platform, 24 14 0  
  763 8 6 ¹⁄₂
Dressing Lighthouse Blocks.
  Wages of masons, including the assistance of labourers, carters, &c., in dressing the blocks for the Lighthouse Tower at Hynish, £8589 8 7 ¹⁄₂  
  Timber for moulds of the various blocks, and the joiners’ wages making the moulds, 384 18 10  
  Timber, &c., and wages of joiners in erecting sheds for the masons, 955 4 5  
  9929 11 10 ¹⁄₂
  Expense of victualling the workmen and others who were employed at the rock during the operation of the whole works,   1503 18 6  
Implements and Tools for Masons, Smiths, &c.
  Amount paid to sundry persons for the implements and tools used by the workmen in all the departments of the works, £1176 9 6 ¹⁄₂  
  Wages of the smiths and their hammermen keeping these tools in repair and making others, 908 16 5  
  2085 5 11 ¹⁄₂
Machinery for the Works at the Rock, Hynish, and North Bay.
  Cost of cranes, crabs, winches, trucks, iron blocks, chains, rope-guys, &c., with sundry other furnishings connected with these articles, £1516 9 5    
  1 Woolwich or sling-cart, a janker for wood, and four jack-screws, 89 6 4  
  Large balance crane used in building the Lighthouse Tower, 533 10 0 ¹⁄₂
  Hoisting beams or needles, and a pair of strong sheer-poles, used in building the Lighthouse Tower, 42 11 2  
  2181 16 11 ¹⁄₂
Cartage Account.
  Cost of 3 large draught horses and a pony, for the use of the works, £127 9 10 ¹⁄₂  
  Carts and stable utensils, 65 14 2 ¹⁄₂
  Harness and other furniture, and keeping them in repair, 52 2 3 ¹⁄₂
  Provender for the horses for seven years, 858 14 8  
  1104 1 0 ¹⁄₂
Mortar Account.
  Cost of the lime which was used for all the departments of the works, £331 9 8    
  Pozzolano which was used for the building of the Lighthouse Tower, excepting a small portion for the works of the harbour or dock, 376 16 4  
  Mastic, cements, and stucco, 39 6 10  
  Wages of labourers grinding and sifting Pozzolano at Hynish, and burning and sifting a portion of the lime, 121 18 8  
  Packages to contain Pozzolano, to prevent its admixture with other cargo when on board ship, 20 0 1  
  889 11 7  
Signal Tower at Hynish.
  Expense of quarrying, dressing, and building the stones, and executing the joiner work of the Signal Tower at Hynish, £370 13 2    
  Pavement and bricks for the interior, 32 13 1  
  Cast-iron floor, with lintels and sole plates for windows, and cast-iron supports for do., 110 13 4  
  Timber for joisting of floors, lining of walls and windows, including the glazing of them, a wooden trap, flag-pole, and other furnishings for interior, 284 9 0  
  Plumber work of roof, 35 9 6  
  A 5 feet achromatic telescope, with stand, &c., for Signal Tower, 35 10 0  
  Cost of a code of signals, flags, return books, and other furnishings, 11 10 6  
  880 18 7  
Lights Account.
  Expense of the apparatus required for the lights at the Pier and Signal Tower at Hynish, including fitting up, &c., £66 7 0    
  Cost of oil and other requisites for upholding these lights, 136 5 8  
  Salary of the Lightkeepers, &c., 131 11 7  
  334 4 3  
“Skerryvore” Steamer.
  First cost and complete outfit of the steamer Skerryvore, £5930 0 11    
  Alteration on the engines, by raising the shafts, &c., 423 5 0  
  Repairs on the hull and engines, on various occasions, during the progress of the works, 1057 4 2  
  Sailing expenses (exclusive of the cost of coals supplied when the steamer was at Hynish), and sundry other minor charges, 5538 10 11 ¹⁄₄
  12,949 1 0 ¹⁄₄
“Queen” Tender.
  First cost and complete outfit of the “Queen” Tender, £935 13 3    
  Sailing expenses and other charges, 1010 7 9  
  Repairs on the hull, rigging, sails, &c., 77 12 8 ¹⁄₄
  2023 13 8 ¹⁄₄
Stone Lighters.
  First cost and outfit of four lighters for transporting the Lighthouse blocks, &c., from Hynish to the Skerryvore Rock, £1666 15 6 ¹⁄₂  
  Hawsers for towing, mooring-ropes, heaving-lines, &c., used in the course of transporting the stones to the Rock, 249 1 6  
  Upholding the lighters in repair, and sundry other charges, 178 9 9 ¹⁄₂
  Expense transporting the lighters on various occasions to different places, 58 15 10  
  Expense shifting and attending upon the lighters when lying at Leith, and advertising them for sale, 19 9 10 ¹⁄₂
  2172 12 6 ¹⁄₂
Moorings.
  Cost of the buoys for mooring the vessels belonging to the works in Hynish Bay, and at the Rock, when lying there, £240 1 3    
  Cast-iron mushroom anchors for mooring the buoys, 118 7 4  
  Wrought-iron common anchors, grapnels, &c., for mooring the vessels, warping, kedging, &c., 48 16 1  
  Chains and shackles for do., &c., 354 2 7  
  Upholding and keeping in repair the buoys, 4 17 1  
  766 4 4  
Boats and Attendance.
  Cost of 8 boats, with oars, sails, tackling, &c., £207 19 11 ¹⁄₂  
  Upholding these boats in repair, 28 13 9  
  Amount paid for the use of boats and their crews assisting to discharge cargoes from vessels previous to the pier being built, 119 6 0  
  355 19 8 ¹⁄₂
  Amount paid the owners of hired vessels, as freights of the Lighthouse blocks from the quarries at North Bay, in Mull, to the workyard at Hynish,   1300 14 8 ¹⁄₂
Freight and Sailing Expenses.
  Freights and other charges paid the owners of hired vessels, vessels, for the materials which were imported for the use of various departments of the works, exclusive of the Lighthouse blocks from North Bay,   4045 9 7 ¹⁄₂
  Wages of labourers, &c., discharging the cargoes from the vessels at the Pier at Hynish, and the wages of workmen quarrying stones for ballast, and putting it on board the vessels, 933 12 10  
  Amount paid for travelling expenses, and other charges connected with the transport of the workmen, including the expenses of the Officers, &c., travelling on the business of the works, 1711 11 2  
  Cost of the coals supplied to the steamer “Skerryvore,” when plying between the Skerryvore Rock, Hynish, &c., for the household purposes of the different departments of the works, and also for the smith’s forge, 1463 0 7 ¹⁄₂
  Cost of the blasting powder used for the purpose of quarrying stones, excavating rocks, &c. 375 14 2 ¹⁄₂
Lighthouse Tower.
  Wages of the workmen who were engaged at Skerryvore Rock in building the Tower, and shipping the materials at Hynish for Rock, including the wages of masons, &c., assisting the other tradesmen in the respective departments of their work, after the completion of the building operations, £2381 11 7    
  Cost of the wainscot and other articles for the joinery of the interior of the Lighthouse; the wages of the joiners preparing the wood at Hynish, and fitting it up at the Tower, 1415 5 1  
  Green heart and oak for treenails, for securing the lower courses of Lighthouse Tower, 40 10 4  
  Plate-glass for windows and borrowed lights in partitions of Tower, 84 7 4  
  Lewis bats, hinges, &c., for entrance-door and shutters of Tower, and the locks and other mounting for the interior, 218 15 2  
  14 Copper oil-cisterns, a copper-pump, gauging-rods for do., 276 10 7  
  Cast-iron water-tanks and coal-boxes, for interior of Tower, 160 13 9  
  A large cooking apparatus for kitchen of Tower, a stove to heat the lower apartments, and cast-iron smoke-tubes for both fire-places, 117 17 7  
  A bell-metal railing for balcony, 341 13 1  
  A bell-metal ladder from rock to entrance-door of Tower, 194 13 4  
  A cast-iron pillar to support floor of light-room, 17 8 7  
  A bell-metal lightning-conductor for Tower, and fixtures, 65 13 0  
  Cast-iron permanent railway on the Skerryvore Rock, from the landing creek to the Tower; a cast-iron platform near the Tower, and stairs at landing creek, 493 11 8  
  A crane erected at the landing creek, for landing materials on the rock, 98 13 2  
  A copper flagstaff and ball for the top of the Lighthouse Tower, with bell-metal base, fixtures, pulleys, &c., 66 10 8  
  A brass force-pump, for pumping water up from tanks to kitchen of Lighthouse, 31 17 5  
  Premiums paid the seamen who were employed in the shipping department, in lieu of extra time, 454 2 6  
  Premiums paid 17 seamen who were employed in the building works at the Rock during the season of 1842, in lieu of extra time, 121 11 0  
  Premiums of the landing master at Rock, foreman of masons, &c., 96 12 0  
  Cost of the furniture, bedding, utensils, books, &c., for the Lighthouse Tower, 304 6 10  
  Sundry furnishings connected with the building of the Lighthouse Tower,—the wages of workmen quarrying stones at Hynish for Lighthouse Tower, previous to opening quarries at North Bay, and the wages of workmen, and furnishings for the general purposes of the works, 1386 18 5 ¹⁄₂
  Cost of three models, in stucco, of different forms of the Lighthouse, 22 4 6  
  Cast-iron water-tanks, which were built and secured into recesses of the rock, for the supplying of the rock works,—new water-casks, and their repairs, for taking off water, 17 5 11  
  Feu-duty, rent of ground, assessed taxes, &c., for the establishment at Hynish, 143 6 4  
  8551 19 10 ¹⁄₂
  Cost of the iron and steel which were used for all the departments of the works,   1299 3 5 ¹⁄₄
Lightroom and Apparatus.
  Cost of the lantern of cast-iron, with facings of bell-metal, including the cleaning and trimming paths, and bell-metal ladder outside of lantern, and the wages of the contractor’s workmen fitting them up at Skerryvore, £863 13 6    
  Plate-glass for the lantern, 268 4 6  
  Copper dome of lantern, including the internal frame of do., drip-pan, copper steps, handles, air-tubes, rain-water pipes, a platform outside of dome for cleaning the vents, with the wages of the contractor’s workmen fitting them up at Skerryvore, 348 16 9  
  Machinery of the revolving apparatus, and brass case for do. complete; three machines for pumping the oil for supplying the burner; the expense of the lamps, fountains, &c.; and bell-metal frames for annular lenses, zones, pyramidal lenses, &c., with the wages of the contractor’s workmen fitting up the above apparatus at Skerryvore, 1244 10 6 ¹⁄₂
  The charge of Mr François of Paris furnishing eight annular lenses, and two spare do., with eight catadioptric frames of the first order for lower part, and eight pyramidal lenses, with mirrors, for upper part, £762 0 0  
  Expense of transporting the whole apparatus to Leith, 79 7 10    
  841 7 10  
  Cost of two bells, and one spare do., used during foggy weather, £107 6 3    
  Shafting for do.; bevel wheels, levers, hammers, &c., connecting with the machinery of apparatus, 63 14 11 ¹⁄₂
  171 1 2 ¹⁄₂  
  Eighteen screens for lantern, cased with iron, and brass mounted, with rollers, &c., and the time of workmen fitting them up at Skerryvore, 48 7 6    
  Air watch-bells from lightroom to bedrooms and kitchen, time of workmen fitting them up at Skerryvore, and furnishings for the complete working of do., 34 13 0  
  Brass medallion heads and copper tubes for ventilation of lightroom, 8 9 6  
  Wood and workmanship making models of the catadioptric zones to a full size, and a brass model of frame for zones to a small scale, 22 1 2  
  3851 5 6  
Salaries, Agencies, and Office Expenses.
  Salaries of the Engineer, Surveyor, Clerk, and Store-keeper, including expenses of the survey of the rocks and adjoining Islands, £3262 10 5    
  Agency of the Agent at Aberdeen, who made the monthly payments to the workmen’s relatives, and for some time superintending the making of tools; and the agency of the Lighthouse Agent at Greenock transacting business for the works, 294 13 11  
  Iron safe, &c., books, and other stationery for the various departments of the works, 99 10 10  
  3656 15 2  
  Petty disbursements and miscellaneous expenses, made on account of the general purposes of the works,   308 7 9  
Lightkeepers’ Houses.
  Wages of workmen, quarrying, dressing, and building the stones of houses at Hynish for light-keepers, building the brick partitions and lining of walls, and the wages of joiners executing the joiner-work, £1893 6 2    
  Timber and other articles used in the joinery of the houses, 462 19 9  
  Plumber-work of roof, including the expense of bringing the water into the houses, &c., 963 18 6  
  Bricks for partitions, lining of external walls, &c., 73 10 0  
  Pavement for floors, water-cisterns, &c., 51 16 0  
  Workmanship, executing the plaster-work (the lime being charged in a special account for this article), 38 12 11  
  Glass for glazing the windows and fan-lights, 20 12 3  
  Locks, hinges, and other mounting for the doors and windows, 101 11 11  
  Cans for the chimney heads, 9 16 6  
  Furniture, bedding, utensils, &c., supplied for these houses, 299 0 4  
  3915 4 4  
Pier at Hynish.
  Wages of masons, quarriers, carters, labourers, &c., quarrying, dressing, and building the stones of a pier at Hynish for the landing and shipping of materials, £2300 17 1 ¹⁄₂  
  Iron rails for the works of building the pier, 53 10 1  
  Timbers for fenders of pier, and other purposes connected with the building of it, 130 19 4  
  Cost of a pont for building the pier, 106 8 11  
  2591 15 5 ¹⁄₂
Dock or Harbour for Tender.
  Wages of workmen, quarrying, dressing, and building stones to form a talus wall and parapet along the south side and round the point of the pier at Hynish; raising the pier one course; excavating rock in the interior of the harbour or dock and along the point of pier; quarrying, dressing, and building the stones of boom-heads and walls of dock; excavating reservoir and forming embankment of do, for scouring sand, &c., from the dock; forming the feeders to reservoir, and the tail-race from reservoir to dock, refreshments to workmen during night and tide works, &c., £6676 10 6    
  Timber for double set of boom-gates of dock, copper for sheathing their ends, and mounting for booms, 101 2 6  
  Timber used in constructing coffer-dams, and for the general purposes of the harbour works, 135 18 0  
  Cost of two sluices, and of the machinery, &c., complete for working them, 81 14 0  
  Two cast-iron ladders for sides of pier and dock, 13 1 9  
  Cost of sea-boots, &c., and keeping them in repair, which were used by the workmen at tide works, 26 12 0  
  Cost of silt-pumps, and furnishings of leather, &c., for making others, and keeping them in repair, 9 10 0  
  Compensation paid the tenant of the farm of Hynish, for liberty to cut drains for a supply of water for a reservoir, 5 0 0  
  Two signal lamps, two torches, turpentine, &c., for signalizing when the tender enters the dock at night, 5 14 8  
  7055 3 5  
  Total, £89,817 6 11  
Deductions—
  Price of steamer “Skerryvore,” sold, £1616 0 6    
  Do. of sloop “Queen,” sold, 200 0 0  
  Do. of 4 Stone Lighters, sold, 225 0 0  
  Do. of Horses and Carts, sold, 60 0 0  
  Implements sold or afterwards used at other works of the Board, 738 8 10  
  2839 9 4  
  £86,977 17 7