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Photographic copy of drawing showing plans and section of tower. In addition a diagram of the stair. Northern Lights, sheet No.3
E 25850 CN
Description Photographic copy of drawing showing plans and section of tower. In addition a diagram of the stair. Northern Lights, sheet No.3
Date c. 1861
Collection Records of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number E 25850 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 9368
Copies SC 783976
Scope and Content Photographic copy of section and plans of tower, Skervuile Lighthouse, Jura, Argyll & Bute This section view of the tower shows the solid stone base, oil store, dry store, water store, kitchen (with fireplace), bedroom (with bunk beds and storage drawer), and finally the light room at the top. The tube which held the weight attached to a clockwork mechanism for turning the lamp can be seen passing through all the floors. The six plan views on the right show joinery details, and plans for the metal stairs are drawn in the bottom right corner. The boatmen who served rock lighthouses often worked relief duties, and would visit the keepers about four times a month. This usually included two Sunday visits to enable the keepers to attend church. Boatmen often risked journeys in stormy weather in order to get supplies to the keepers on the rock lights, and were in danger even at their shore stations. The storms of 1877-8 were so fierce that the relief boat was sunk at its mooring in Lowlandman's Bay. Skervuile Lighthouse was built in 1865 to designs by engineer Thomas Stevenson (1818-87), father of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94). Its white-painted tower stands 25m high on a rocky island 4km off the east coast of Jura, and when manned it was serviced by a boatman based at Lowlandman's Bay, Jura. The lighthouse became a minor light in 1945 when it was automated. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium colour negative
Accession Number 1987/10
External Reference 90/S1/4
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