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
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.
335_a_. =Douglas=, Old Pier-head, lat. 54° 10´; one fixed red
light, visible 6 miles; 43 feet high; built 1796; re-built 1865.
335_b_. =Douglas=, Promenade Pier; one fixed blue light;
erected 1869.
336. =Douglas=, new landing-pier; one fixed green light;
erected 1868.
337_a_. and 337_b_. =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]
[68] It was this lighthouse, we presume, which underwent so
extraordinary an accident on Saturday, February 19th, 1870. About
half-past ten A.M., the schooner _Elizabeth and Jane_, of Preston,
approached the mouth of the channel opposite Fleetwood. Adjoining
the channel mouth, and about three miles from the latter town, is
situated a lighthouse upon screw piles. When about half a mile off the
lighthouse, the captain of the schooner found he was drifting towards
it, and, spite of all his exertions, he was unable to change her
course, as the tide flowed rapidly inwards, and a dead calm prevailed.
Before the anchor could get a “hold,” the ship ran bow foremost into
the piles, which were all shattered by the collision, and taking up the
body of the lighthouse—a huge sexangular timber frame, filled in with
windows, and surmounted with “a large revolving (?) light”—carried it
away on her forecastle. Two keepers were in the lighthouse, but neither
was hurt. The vessel, however, was greatly injured, and some alarm
was felt lest she should sink. However the accident was seen from the
shore; a tug steamer came to her assistance, and, with the lighthouse
on board, she was towed into port. Until a new structure can be raised,
a lightship will be stationed in a suitable locality.
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