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Photographic copy showing location plan of fog signal. Section, sill of window and bats for lightning rod. Northern Lights, sheet No.1
E 25643 CN
Description Photographic copy showing location plan of fog signal. Section, sill of window and bats for lightning rod. Northern Lights, sheet No.1
Date 15/2/1859
Collection Records of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number E 25643 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 8481
Copies SC 787677
Scope and Content Photographic copy of location plan for fog signal, section of window sill, and bats for lightning rod, Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Western Isles This shows a plan of the site, with the lighthouse shown as a grey circle close to the grey rectangle representing the principal keeper's house (centre). The pink rectangle (left) is the keeper's accommodation, oil store and engine house (which powered the compressors for the foghorn). The pink circle close to the rocky shore is the foghorn tower. The details on the right side of the drawing show a section through a window sill, and the fittings for the lightning rod which protected the foghorn tower. The foghorn was situated in a tall painted brick tower behind the lighthouse itself. At the top of the tower an iron handrail allowed keepers to maintain the horn safely during bad weather. The fog signal would warn shipping of dangerous rocks during foggy conditions when the light may not have been visible. The signal was discontinued on 31 March 1995. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse was built in 1862 to designs by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87) and stands on the northernmost tip of the Isle of Lewis, officially the windiest spot in the UK. The 37m-high red brick tower is surmounted by a black domed lantern, and has a light which flashes white every five seconds, with a range of 40km over the Atlantic Ocean. The keepers lived in white-painted, flat-roofed cottages around the tower until the complex was automated in 1998. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium colour negative
Accession Number 1987/10
External Reference C/10/5
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/729490
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