Lightships and LighthousesTalbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
History
Lightships and Lighthouses
Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
Lighthouses
Looking up the Lantern of the Needles Lighthouse 52
Fixed Apparatus of the Fourth Order for Sarawak 53
A Modern Lighthouse Siren Plant 58
The Sirens of the Lizard 59
The Acetylene Fog-Gun 64
The Rattray Head Lighthouse 65
Sule Skerry Light 65
The Eddystone, the Most Famous Lighthouse of England 76
A Thrilling Experience 77
The “Bishop,” the Western Outpost of England 82
The Wolf Rock Lighthouse 83
The Longships Light 88
The Godrevy Light, Scilly Islands 89
The Chicken Rock Lighthouse, off the Isle of Man 92
How the Skerryvore is built 93
The Skerryvore, Scotland’s Most Famous Lighthouse 102
Barra Head Lighthouse, Scotland 103
The Homes of the Keepers of the Skerryvore and Dhu-Heartach
Lights 103
The Dhu-Heartach Lighthouse 110
The North Unst, Britain’s most Northerly Lighthouse 111
The North Unst Light 116
Landing Water at the North Unst 116
The Flannen Islands Light-Station 117
Building the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse 122
Building the Fastnet Tower 123
Erecting the Fastnet Lantern 123
The Fastnet, the Outpost of Europe 128
The Lantern of the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse 129
The Rothersand Lighthouse 136
The Fourteen-Foot Bank Lighthouse, built on Sand 137
The Heaux de Bréhat Light 150
Fitting the Lantern of La Jument Light 151
Preparing the Foundations of the Jument Tower 154
The Jument Light recently erected off Ushant 155
The Cape Race Lighthouse, Newfoundland 162
Cann Island Lighthouse, on the East Coast of Newfoundland 163
The Light at the Southern End of Belle Ile 166
The North Belle Ile Lighthouse 167
A Magnificent Canadian Light on the Pacific Coast 168
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