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Sanda Island, Lighthouse
Lighthouse (19th Century)
Site Name Sanda Island, Lighthouse
Classification Lighthouse (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Fliuchach; Ship Rock; The Ship; Firth Of Clyde; North Channel
Canmore ID 156837
Site Number NR70SW 4
NGR NR 72549 03715
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/156837
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Southend
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR70SW 4.00 72549 03715
Lighthouse [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1980.
Lighthouse [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2009.
NR70SW 40.01 NR 72512 03778 and NR 72504 03801 Keepers' Houses
Location formerly entered as NR 7253 0372.
Name: Sanda (1850)
Location: N55 16 W5 35 Firth of Clyde, 2.5 miles S of Mull of Kintyre
Designed and built: Alan Stevenson
Light first exhibited: 1850
Description: circular stone tower, painted white
Height of light above MHW: 164ft (50m)
Height of tower: 48ft (15m)
Light source and characteristics: W Fl (1) ev 10 secs. 250W mercury vapour lamp: W61,000: 15nm nominal range
Fog warning apparatus: Siren (1) ev 60 secs
Manning: unwatched (automatic since 26 March 1992), monitored from Northern Lighthouse Board HQ, Edinburgh
Solar panels and wind generators installed as part of the automation programme
C Nicholson 1995.
This island lighthouse is built on The Ship or Ship Rock, which projects from the S coast of Sanda. From this position, 7 miles SSE of the Mull of Kintyre, it guards the N side of the approach to the Mull of Kintyre. Its construction is distinguished by the provision of a covered spiral staircase between the lighthouse and the keepers' houses (NR70SW 4.01) to the N.
The lighthouse was built by Alan Stevenson, and first lighted in 1850. It was one of the last seven lighthouses in the Northern Lights service to be lit by paraffin vapour, not being automated and electrified until 1991.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 June 2009.
R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986; S Krauskopf 2001.
