Photographic copy of Plan showing elevation and section of tower and title deeds. Titled: 'Northern Lights Phladda Island' 'Elevation and Section of Tower' 'Sheet No 2'.

Description Photographic copy of Plan showing elevation and section of tower and title deeds. Titled: 'Northern Lights Phladda Island' 'Elevation and Section of Tower' 'Sheet No 2'.

Date 3/12/1857

Collection Records of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number E 25518 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 9319

Copies SC 781625

Scope and Content Photographic copy of elevation and section of tower, Fladda Lighthouse, Fladda, Jura, Argyll & Bute This shows a section of the lighthouse, and plans of the lightroom floor, dry store floor and oil cellar (left), an elevation of the tower (centre), and a plan, elevation and detail of the parapet door. The tower does not include keeper accommodation, as this was provided in an adjacent cottage. The light on Fladda flashes white, red and green. The white light having a nominal range of 20km, the red and green of 17km. As the number of manned and unmanned lighthouses increased, a greater variety of lights and flashes were introduced to enable sailors to tell where they were, and to avoid confusion. Fladda Lighthouse was built on a rocky island close to Luing, near Jura in 1860. This small circular tower was designed by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87), and stands 13m tall, and 13m above mean high water. Nearby is a single-storeyed keepers' house. The lighthouse was automated in 1956. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium colour negative

Accession Number 1987/10

External Reference C90/F3/30

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