Lightships and LighthousesTalbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
History
Lightships and Lighthouses
Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
Lighthouses
Stevenson, David, “North Unst,” 9
Stevenson, David and Charles: the acetylene gun, 68-71;
the unattended light, 269;
the Platte Fougère fog-signal, 270-71;
the Otter Rock light, 297;
scheme for Rockall, 300
Stevenson, David and Thomas: works carried out by, 15, 53;
the Chicken Rock light, 94;
building of the Dhu-Heartach, 114-20
Stevenson, family of engineers: preeminence of, 8-10;
systems of lighting, 36-38;
adoption of electricity, 219-22;
work in Japan, 258;
characteristics, 305
Stevenson, George, and the Fastnet, 122
Stevenson, Robert, and the Bell Rock lighthouse, 9, 97-100;
Skerryvore, 101
Stevenson, Robert Louis, “A Family of Engineers,” 8-9
Stevenson, Thomas, 9, 222
Stewart Island, 237
Stornoway lighthouse, lighting, 53-54
Strain, Samuel H., 306
Subsidiary lights, 53-55
Suez, 312
Sugar-Loaf Point lighthouse, 232
Sule Skerry lighthouse, 9, 39
Sumatra, 257
“Sun-valve,” the Dalén, 275-78
Superior, Lake, lighting of, 214, 216, 217
Sweden: floating lighthouses, 291;
unattended lighthouses, 277-82
Swift, Captain W. H., the Minot’s Ledge light, 176-78, 182
Sydney lighthouse. _See_ Macquarie Tower
_Tararua_, steamship, wreck of the, 236, 237
Tay, Firth of, 96
Terawhiti, Cape, 238
Thames lightships, 240-41
Thomas, O. P., 260
Three Kings Rock, 236
Tierra del Fuego, 268
Tillamook Head, 183
Tillamook Rock lighthouse, 13-15, 183-95, 204;
the keepers, 307-8
Tiri-Tiri Island lighthouse, 236-38
Torrain Rocks, 113
Tory Island lighthouse, 39
Trade, Board of:
collection of light dues, 7-8;
and the siren, 61;
Mr. Ingrey’s scheme, 64;
adoption of electricity, 219
Trewavas, John R., death of, 14-15
Triangle Island, British Columbia, light, 174
Trinity House Brethren: purchase of patents, 6;
maintenance of English lights, 7, 26;
adoption of the Daboll trumpet, 60;
and the Eddystone, 77;
and the Wolf Rock, 88-89;
and the Whiteside light, 93;
and the Fastnet, 122;
adoption of electricity, 218, 223;
the light on the Seven Stones, 248
Trinity House Museum: Smeaton’s clock, 76-77;
Bishop Rock fog-bell, 85-86
_Triumph_, steamship, wreck, 236
Tyndall, Professor, 59
Tyree, island of, 100, 102, 105, 107
United States Corps of Engineers, 63, 198
United States Lighthouse Board, 13 36, 195;
coastline lighting, 20, 196-207;
methods of lighting, 46-47;
inauguration, 198;
extent of control 206-7;
lighting of the Great Lakes, 208-17;
lightship service, 255;
adoption of the Aga light, 294-95
United States Typographical Engineers, 176
Unst, island of, 112
Ushant, 148, 156, 157
Ushant Island, 158
Vancouver, 173;
coastline, 284
Vancouver Island, 174
Victoria, 173
_Victoria_, steamer, wreck, 303-4
Waipapapa Point lighthouse, 236, 237
Walker, James, 8;
Bishop Rock light, 84-5
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