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.]