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Orkney Smr Note
Event ID 619055
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619055
First lit on 1 October 1794: two towers, one 80ft high the
other 60ft, to distinguish from other lights. Heightening of the
towers by rebuilding on the same site but now 100ft apart, the
higher tower now 118ft high, was apparently completed 1833.
Dioptric lamps fitted 1848. In 1895 the low light was
discontinued, as the two lights were too readily mistaken for
ships' masthead lights, and from 1909 the low tower was used as a
platform for a fog signal. [R1]
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
