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
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.]
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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.
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