Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and OrganizationAdams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
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Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
Lighthouses; Lightships
as far as the land will permit. The bearings are magnetic, and from the
vessel. A light of weaker power will be shown from the channel towards
Montrose Harbour.”
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.
[Illustration: GIRDLENESS LIGHTHOUSE.]
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.
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