INDEX

Aberbrothock, Abbot of, 96

Acetylene: as illuminant, Daléngas, 49, 274;

systems for floating lighthouses, 238, 278, 285–95;

cost of lighting by, 282;

dissolved, French system of using, 291;

use in Sweden, 291–94

Acetylene gun, the, 68–71

Admiralty, the: adoption of the siren, 60–61;

use of the Wigham light, 296

Adriatic shoreline, 203

“Aga” principle of lighting, 274, 277, 291, 293;

adopted by the United States, 294–95

Ailly, Pointe d’, 303

Ailsa Crag, system of fog-signalling, 63–65, 66

Alaska: trade of, 173;

controlled by the Lighthouse Board, 206;

unattended lighthouses, 277;

coastline 284

Alderney coastline, 12–13

Alexander, Lieutenant B. S., the Minot’s ledge-light, 8, 179

Alexandria, Pharos of, 2–3

Allerton Point lighthouse, 6

Altacarry Head, 313

Ambrose Channel, 251

American Thimble Shoal lighthouse, 308

Amour Point light, 169

Anderson, Lieutenant-Colonel William P., 172, 174, 217

Anglo-Saxon, Allan liner, wreck, 163–64

Anticosti, 171

Antifer, Cap d’, lighthouse, 39

Antipodes, the, 239

Arbroath, 97

Arena Point, 204

Argand burner, the, 47, 55, 79, 219

Argyll, Duke of, 115;

lays foundation-stone of Skerryvore, 105

Ar-men light, Finisterre, 20–24

Arthur, Port, 214, 217

Assyrian, the, wreck, 164

Astoria, 13, 185, 188, 193

Auckland coastline, 236, 237, 238

harbour, 238

Islands, 239

Auer, Dr. von, the incandescent mantle, 47–48

Australia: lighthouses of, 229–39;

unattended lighthouses, 283

Austria, lighthouses, 48

Bache, General Hartmann, 63;

Brandywine Shoal light, 200–201

“Back lights,” 20

Ballantyne, A., the Tillamook Rock lighthouse, 185–95

Ballycastle, 313

Baltic Sea, unattended lighthouses of the, 274, 278, 291

Bar lightship, Mersey, 240

Barnard, General, the Minot’s Ledge light, 178–82

Barra Head, 113

Barra Island, 113

Barsier rock, 269

Bauld Cape light, 169

“Bay of the Dead,” Finisterre, 21, 22

Beachy Head lighthouse, 24–27, 94

Belfast, 306

Bell Rock lighthouse, 9;

lighting, 53;

fog-signals, 59;

the reef, 96–97

Bell-buoys, 68

Belle Ile, 51;

the beacons, 169;

the Northern light, 170–71;

the Southern light, 169;

the auxiliary light, 169–70;

isolation of, 171

Belle Ile, Straits of, 162, 163, 169

Bells: on lighthouses, 58;

submarine, 249–50

Biscay, Bay of, gales, 3–4

Bishop Rock lighthouse, 38, 51, 81–87

Black Prince, the, in Gascony, 4

Black Sea, lighthouses on the, 18–19

Blau liquid gas, 48–49

“Blowing-holes,” 62–63

Bluff, the, 236

Bois Blanc Island, 211

Bordeaux, trade of, 3–4

Boston Harbour: lighting, 6, 33–4, 196;

Minot’s Ledge light, 176–82

Bothnia, Gulf of, unattended lighthouses, 268, 274

Bounty Islands, 239

Bourdelles, M., investigations, 56, 219

Brandywine Shoal light, 200–201

Brebner, Alexander, 117

“Breeches-buoy,” used at Tillamook Rock, 187–89

Bréhat, Heaux de, Reynaud’s tower, 149–53

Bréhat, Isle of, 149

Bremerhaven, 132, 138, 139, 141

Brett, Cape, lighthouse, 238

Brewster, Sir David, lighting methods, 29

Bridges and Roads, Department of, 148

Bristol Channel: the Flat Holme light, 7;

unattended lighthouses, 278–79

British Columbia coastline, 284

Brittany coastline, 148

Brothers light, the, 234–35

Bull Rock lighthouse, 39

Bullivant cableways, 25–26

Bungaree Norah. See Norah Head

Buoys: bell and whistle, 68;

gas-buoys, 244;

the Willson, 286–89;

combined light and whistling, 290

Büsun, 226

Byron Bay, 232

Byron Cape, 232

Cabrillo Point light, 205

Calf Rock light, 123

California coastline, 204

Campbell, General, 270

Campbell Island, 239

Canadian Marine Department, 8;

systems of building, 18–19;

fog-signalling apparatus, 66–68;

lighting of the coastline, 161–75;

lighting of the Great Lakes, 208–17;

floating lighthouses, 286

Caribou Island lighthouse, 216–17

Carmel Head, 94

Carolina, North, 240

Carrington, W. H. T., 25

Casquets lighthouse: the approach to, 12–13;

keepers of the, 314

Castle Point lighthouse, 238

Casuarina Island, 55

Catoptric system of lighting, 28

Centre Island lighthouse, 237

Chance Bros. and Co.: systems of lighting, 33, 36, 42, 55, 256;

the hyperradiant method, 38–39;

lenses, 40;

clockwork mechanism, 43–44;

the incandescent mantle, 48;

works carried out by, 53, 222

Channel Islands coastline, 269

Charles, Cape, 200

Chatham Island, 239

Chauffer, the, 4–6

Chesapeake Bay lights, 199, 200, 308

Chicken Rock light, 9, 94, 238

China, coast-lighting, 258–59

Clear, Cape, 121

Coffin Island, 171

Cohasset Rocks, 177

Colchester Reef lighthouse, 210, 216

Colfax: “Miss Colfax’s light,” 315–16

Collinson, Sir Richard, rocket system invented by, 58–59

“Colossus,” the Rothersand caisson, 138–9

Colton family, the, 170

Columbia River, 183, 184, 185

Colza oil as illuminant, 46, 47

Concrete, reinforced, use of, 18, 174

Cook’s Strait, 233, 234, 237

Cordouan, rocks of, 4

Cordouan, Tour de, 4–5, 30

Cornish plunderers of the Wolf Rock, 88

Corunna lighthouse, 3

Couedie, Cap de, lighthouse, 55

Courtenay, whistling device, 290

Creach, electric light at, 156

Daboll, C. L., invention of the trumpet fog-signal, 59, 60

Dalén, Gustaf: the sun-valve, 49;

system of lighting, 274, 275, 291;

unattended lights, 269;

honour for, 291 note;

experiments, 292–93

Danger Point, 230

Darling, Grace, 95, 314

Daudet, Alphonse, “Phares de Sanguinaires,” 93

Delaware Bay, 143, 199, 200

Denmark, coastline, lighting, 48

Detroit River, Lower, 208

“Deviline” toy whistle, 61

Dewey, Admiral, 310

Dhu-Heartach lighthouse, 9, 107, 113–20, 311

Diamond Shoal, dangers of, 205–6;

the lightship, 251–53

“Diaphone,” the, 67, 68, 165

Dieppe, 303–304

Differential arc, use of, 227–28

Dioptric system of lighting, 37, 220

Disappointment Cape lighthouse, 186

Distances, table of, 52

“Divergence,” 39

Dog Island lighthouse, 237

Doty burner, the, 238

“Double-shell” principle of construction, 200

Douglass, Sir James: design for the new Eddystone, 78–80;

preservation of the Bishop Rock, 86–87;

system of lighting, 223

Douglass, William, and the Fastnet, 123

Dover Harbour lightship, 245

Dover, the pharos at, 3

Doyle Fort, 271–74

Drummond Castle, wreck, 148

Dues, lighthouse, 4, 7, 239

Duluth, 214

Duncansby Head, 108

Dunedin, N.Z., 236

Dungeness light, 94

Dunkirk, 249

Earraid, 115, 116

East Cape, N.Z., 236

East Indies Archipelago, 257

Eddystone lighthouse: lighting of, 38, 41, 55;

fog-signals, 59;

description, 72, 82;

the Winstanley construction, 73–4;

John Rudyerd’s lighthouse, 74, 75, 94;

Smeaton’s work, 75, 78, 80;

the Douglass tower, 78–80;

keepers of, 311

“Eddystones,” 72

Edinburgh, Duke of, 79

Egmont, Cape, 233

Electricity: as luminant, 50–51, 148, 218, 295–96;

used in operation of derrick, 159

Eider lightship, 249

Erie, Lake, 208, 216

Estevan Point light, 174

Fair Isle lighthouse, 39

“Family of Engineers (A),” 8–9

Faraday, Professor, 218

Farallon Beacon, 205

Farallon Isles, fog-signalling on, 63

Farne Islands, 95, 314

Faro, the, 3

Fastnet lighthouse, 121–31;

lighting, 41;

keepers, 311

Ferro-concrete, use in construction, 18–19

Feu-éclair, the, 56

Finisterre, Cape, 3;

the Ar-men light, 20–24

Fire Island lighthouse, 250

Fire Island lightship, 240, 242, 250

Fisher’s Island Sound, 203

Flamborough Head light, 95

Flannen Islands lighthouse, 9, 113;

disappearance of keepers, 313–14

Flat Holme light, the, 7

Florida coastline, 201

“Focal point,” 39

Fog-signals: discharge of guns, 57–58;

rockets, 58–59;

explosion of gun-cotton, 59;

the Daboll trumpet, 59–60;

the siren, 60–62;

blowing-holes, 62–63;

installation on Ailsa Crag, 63–66;

diaphone on Ailsa Crag, 66–68;

the acetylene gun, 68–71;

diaphone at Cape Race, 165;

Belle Ile diaphone, 170

Foix, Louis de, 4–5, 8

Forfarshire, the, 95, 314

Forteau Bay, 169

Forth, Firth of, lighthouses in, 7, 218–19

Fourteen Foot Bank, 132, 143–47

Foveaux Strait, 237

Fowey Rocks lights, 201–3

French coast: lighting of, 148;

lightships, 243, 249

French Lighthouse Commission (1811), 29

Fresnel, Augustin: system of lighting, 28, 33, 286;

adopted by the United States, 36

Gap Rock lighthouse and signal-station, 264

Gas Accumulator Company, of Stockholm, 49, 274, 291

Gas as illuminant, the incandescent mantle, 47–48

Gasfeten tower, 274

Gedney’s Channel, lighting of, 295–96

General Superintendent of Lights, office of, 197–98

Georgian Bay, 216

Gerholmen light-boat, 294

Germany: coastline of, lighting, 48, 50–51;

the lightship service, 249–50

Gironde lighthouse, 19

Gironde, the, rocks of the estuary, 3–4

Goodwin Sands, 205, 240, 244–45, 248

Grand Banks, the, 163

Grande Braye Rock, 296

Grand Trunk Pacific, 173

Granite, use of, 18

Great Lakes of North America: lighting of the, 27, 173, 208–17;

Lighthouse Board, control of, 206;

floating lighthouses, 286

Green Cape lighthouse, 232–33

“Grouting,” 27

Guantanamo Bay, 308

Guernsey coast lighthouse, 9, 16;

unattended lights, 269

Gun-cotton, explosion of, 58, 59

Halifax Harbour: lights, 192;

the “Outer Automatic,” 290

Halpin, George, the Fastnet lighthouse, 121–23, 129

Hand Deeps, 79

Hanois lighthouse, 16

Hargreaves, Riley and Co., 260

Harkort, Society of, Duisburg, 133–34:

the Rothersand contract, 136–43

Hatteras, Cape: coastline, 147, 251–53;

sandbanks, 205–6, 240

Hauraki Gulf, 238

Hawaiian Islands, 206

Hebrides, lighthouses of the, 112, 313

Heligoland lighthouse, 133, 218;

use of the rocket system, 59;

the electric installation, 224–26

Hellespont, Sigeum lighthouse, 2

Henlopen Cape, light, 199

Hennebique system, 260

Henry, Cape, lighthouse, 20, 199–200

Héve, Cape, lighthouse, 218, 219

Hinemoa, New Zealand Government steamer, 235, 236, 238

Hoheweg lighthouse, 138

Hole-in-the-Wall, Vancouver, 174

Holland coastline, 48

Holmes, Professor, fog-horns, 60–62, 64, 66, 218

Holophotal revolving apparatus, 33

Hong-Kong, 264

“Hoo-doo,” 91

Horaine, plateau of, 153–56

Horn, Cape, 268

Hornum light, the electric installation, 226–28

Howe, Cape, 230, 232

Huddart Parker, liner, wreck, 236

Hudson Bay coastline, 268

Hugo, Victor, “The Toilers of the Sea,” 269

Hunting Island tower, South Carolina, 19–20

Huron, Lake, 211

Hynish harbour, 107

“Hyperradiant,” the, 37, 41;

the quicksilver trough, 42–43

“Ice-breakers,” 201

“Ice-stoves,” 200–201, 210

Inchcape. See Bell Rock

Ingrey, Charles, scheme for Ailsa Crag, 64, 66

Invercargill, 237

Iona, 100

Ireland, Congested Districts Board beacons, 282–83

Irish lights, Commissioners of, 7;

the Fastnet, 123, 127

Iron, use in construction, 19–20

Islay, 298

Jamaica coastline, lighting, 283

Japan, coastline, lighthouses, 9–10, 257–58

Java, 257

Jersey coastline, 243

Jument of Ushant, 156, 160

Karachi, unattended light, 281

Kavanagh, James, the Fastnet, 125, 128

“Kingdom of Heaven,” 92

Labrador coastline, 169, 268

Lagerholmen lighthouse, 278

Lampaul, Bay of, 157

Land’s End coastline, 247

Lard-oil as fuel, 46, 47

Leasowe lighthouse, 16;

fire at, 309

Lenses, preparation, 39, 40

Lewes, Delaware, 144

Lewis, Isle of, 113

Lewis, Winslow, invention of, 34, 35

“Light-boats,” 294

Lighthouse Board, U.S.A., 178–79

Lighthouse dues, origin, 4, 7;

levy of, 7, 239

Lighthouse Literature Mission, 306

Lighthouses, construction of, 174;

wooden towers, 198;

electric, of the world, 218–28;

unattended, 267–83;

floating, 284–300

Lighting: candles, 33;

Fresnel system, 28–33;

holophotal revolving apparatus, 33;

hyperradiants, 33–41;

sperm-oil, 46;

colza-oil, 46–47;

lard-oil, 46, 47;

petroleum, 47–48, 296–98;

paraffin, 47–48;

oil-gas, 48–49, 296;

various gases, 49–50;

electric lighting, 50–51, 148, 295–96;

acetylene system, 69–71, 238, 291

Light-keepers, life of the, 301–17

Lights: wood or coal in open braziers, 28;

tallow candles, 28;

indentification of, 32;

classification of, 37, 44–45;

“divergence,” 39;

focal point, 39;

white and coloured, 45–46;

candle-power, 51, 53;

subsidiary, 53–55;

duration of flash in revolving, 55–56

Lightships: the Stevenson unattended, 70;

maintenance of, 240–41;

description, 241–42;

the Minquiers light, 243–44;

average crew for, 244–45;

incidents, 244–55;

illuminating apparatus, 255–57

“Light valve,” the Dalén, 275–78

Lipson’s Reef, 55

Little Brewster Island lighthouse, 196–197

Lizard Head, 72, 82, 94

Lizard lighthouse, 94, 218

Lloyd’s, signalling-station at the Fastnet, 131

Longfellow, lines to Minot’s Ledge light, 176

Longships light, 82, 92, 311

Longstones lighthouse, 95, 314

Louis XIV. and the Eddystone, 75

Lundy Island, 92

Lupata, sailing-ship, wreck, 183

Lusitania, French emigrant steamer, wreck, 164

Ly-ce-moon, steamer, wreck, 233

Mackinac, Strait of, 211

Macquarie, tower, 231

Magellan, Straits of, 268;

unattended lighthouses, 274–75

Malacca Straits lighthouse, 257;

One Fathom Bank, 259–64

Malay Peninsula, 257

Malcolm Baxter Junior, schooner, collision with the lighthouse, 308

Man, Isle of, Chicken Rock light, 94

Manacles, wrecks on the, 7

Manilla, 310

Manora breakwater, the Wigham light, 281

Manora Point light, Karachi, 39–41

Maria Van Diemen, Cape, lighthouse, 237, 238

Marine and Fisheries, Department of, Canada, 171

Marine Department, New Zealand, 233

Matthews, Sir Thomas, 26;

light designed by, 278–79, 299

May, Isle of, lighthouse, 7, 218–23

Megantic, White Star liner, 313

Meldrum, Sir John, the North Foreland lighthouse, 81

Mendocino, Cape, lighthouse, 204–5

Ménier, Henri, 171

Mercury float, the, 42, 43, 56

Meriten (De), dynamos, 221, 223

Mersey lightship, 240

Mew Island lighthouse, 38, 41

Mexico, Gulf of, coastline, 201

Michigan City Harbour light, 315–16

Michigan Lake, lighting of, 208, 211, 214, 215, 217

Minches, the, 112, 113

Minnehaha, wreck of the, 82, 83

Minot’s Ledge light, 11, 74, 204;

Captain Swift’s tower, 176–78;

General Barnard’s structure, 178–82

Minquiers lightship, 243–44

Mohegan wreck, 7

Moko Hinou, 238

Monach Island light, 113

“Monolithic” method of construction, 16–19

Montagu Island lighthouse, 30–31

Monterey Bay, 315

Morocco, Cape Spartel light, 207

Moye system of lighting, 69

Muckle Flugga, 109–112

Mull, Isle of, 102, 115

Mull of Kintyre, 108

Murray, Hon. A., 260

Nantucket Shoals lightship, 250

Navesink lighthouse, 51, 218

Needles light, the, 94

New Jersey coastline, 218

New London, Connecticut, Race Rock lighthouse, 203–4

New South Wales, lighthouses of, 230, 231, 232–33

New York Harbour: lighting, 218, 295;

lightships, 251

New Zealand: system of lighting, 33;

lighthouses of, 229–30, 233–35;

the lighthouse-keepers, 235;

unattended lighthouses, 268

Newfoundland coastline, 162, 169

Newhaven, 303

“No. 87” lightship, 251

Norah Head lighthouse, 232

Norderney lightship, 242, 249

Nore lightship, 240, 242, 245

Norge liner, wreck, 299

Norman Cape light, 169

North Cape, New Zealand, lighthouse, 237, 238

North Foreland light, 81

North German Lloyd Atlantic liners, 132, 137

North Island, New Zealand, coastline, 233

North Ronaldshay lighthouse, 33

North Unst lighthouse, 9, 109, 110–12

Northern lighthouses, Commissioners of, 8–10, 37, 63, 64, 94, 96, 100–02, 105, 109, 114, 219

North-West lightship (Mersey), 240

Nova Scotia: Sable Island lighthouse, 166;

floating lighthouses, 285, 290

Nuremberg, tests carried out at, 225–26

Oil-gas, compressed, use of, 48, 296

One Fathom Bank lighthouse, 259–64

“One-tenth flash,” 294

Ontario Lake, 217

Oregon coastline, 13, 195

Orkneys coastline, 108, 109

Otter Rock lightship, 9, 297–99

Ouessant, Ile d’. See Ushant

“Outer Automatic,” Halifax Harbour, 290

Outer Diamond Shoal lightship, 147

Outer Minot light, 177, 178

Panama Canal, unattended lighthouses, 277

“Panels,” system of dividing the light by, 31–32

Paraffin, use of, 47

Paris Exhibition of 1867, 61

Paris, wreck of the, 7

Parry sound, 216

Patents granted for upkeep of beacons, 5–6

Pei Yu-Shan lighthouse, 39

Pencarrow Head lighthouse, 234

Pentland Firth, 108

Pentland Skerries light, 109

Petroleum gas, use of, 47, 48, 279, 296–98

Phare, the term, 3

Phares, Service des, 19, 148, 219

Pharos, constructional vessel, 110

Pharos, the, Dover, 3;

of Alexandria, 2–3

Philippines coastline, 206

Phœnicians, beacons erected by the, 3

Pilgrim Fathers, the, and lighthouses, 6

Pilotage, Board of, Sweden, experiments with acetylene, 292, 293–94

Pino Point lighthouse, 315

Pladda, Island of, 64

Planier lighthouse, 219

Platte Fougère, land-controlled station of, 269–74, 283

Pleasanton, Stephen, 197–98

Plenty, Bay of, 236

Plymouth Harbour, 72

Plymouth Hoe, 80

Poe, General O. M., Spectacle Reef lighthouse, 211–14

Portland Canal, 173

Portland, Duke of, lighthouse on the Isle of Man, 7

Portland stone, used for building Eddystone, 76

Port of Dublin Corporation, 121

Potomac, ice-shores of the, 200–201

Potron, Charles Eugène, generosity of, 157, 159–60

Prince Rupert, port of, 173, 284

Pulsometer Engineering Company, Reading, 66

Punta Gorda light-station, 311

Puysegur Point, 237

Queenstown harbour floating light, 297

Race, Cape, lighthouse, 39, 43;

the lens, 40–41;

clockwork mechanism, 43;

fog-signalling apparatus, 67;

dangers of, 162–64;

the first beacon, 164–65;

the new beacon, 165

Race Rock lighthouse, 203–4

Ralph the Rover, 96

Rame Head, 72

Rathlin light, 313

Rattray Briggs lighthouse, 9

Ray, Cape, 164

Red Rock lighthouse, 210, 216

Red Sea lighthouses, 311

Rennie, John, the Bell Rock light, 97

Reyes Point, 205

Reynaud, Léonce, tower on the Heaux de Bréhat, 149–53

Rhins of Islay, 113

Ribière, 8

Rock Island, 124

Rock of Ages lighthouse, 210, 214–15, 216

Rockall, the, 299–300

Rockets, use of, 58–59

Rose of Mull, the, 113

Rothersand lighthouse, 11, 218;

the first attempt, 132–36;

work of the Society Harkort, 136–43

Round Island lighthouse, 39

Royale, Isle, 214

Rudyerd, John, the Eddystone lighthouse, 74, 75, 92–93

Russell Channel, the, 269–70

Russian lighthouse authorities, 18

Rutingen lightship, 242, 249

Sable Island, 162;

description, 165–66;

lighthouses and chief station, 166–67;

the west end light, 167–68;

the east end light, 168

St. Agnes light, 81

St. Catherine’s Downs, 223

St. Catherine’s lighthouse, 55, 94, 218;

the electric installation, 223–24

St. Clair, Lake, 208

St. David’s Head, 92

St. John’s, Newfoundland, 164

St. Kilda, 300

St. Lawrence, Gulf of, 163;

dangers, 171

St. Lawrence River:

fog-signalling apparatus, 66–68;

entrance, 162;

the ice, 172;

lighting of the, 172–73

St. Malo Harbour, 243

St. Mary’s, 85

St. Peter Port lighthouse, 269–70

Sambro Island lighthouse, 162

Samoan Islands, American, controlled by the Lighthouse Board, 206

San Francisco: bay, 63;

coastline, 205

Sand, lighthouses built on, 132–47

Sandbanks, signposts of the, 240–56

Sandy Hook lighthouse, 199, 295

Sarnia, 216

Salara, the, wreck, 232–33

Sault Ste. Marie, 216

Scammon’s Harbour, 212

Schiller, German packet, wreck of, 86

Schukert, 225

Scilly Island, 81, 82, 247

Scotland: lighting, 50;

sea-rock lights of, 96;

the coastline, 108

Scotsman, Dominion liner, 171

Scott, C. W., and the Fastnet, 123–24, 129

Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 100, 101

“Screw-pile lighthouses,” 19, 83, 200–203, 261–62

Sea-rock lighthouses, construction, 20 et seq.

Serrin-Berjot lamps, 221–23

Seven Hunters. See Flannen Islands

Seven Stones lightship, 242, 248–49

Seven Wonders of the world, 2

Shark-catching, 311–12

Sherman, General, 211

Shetlands coastline, 108–109

Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 82

Sigeum lighthouse, on the Hellespont, 2

Singapore, 257

Siren, the, developments, 59–60, 159

Skerries light, 94

Skerryvore lighthouse, 11, 59, 100–107, 113, 311

Slave-running, 312

Slight, Mr., the modern siren, 62

Smalls, The, 92–93

Smeaton, John, the Eddystone lighthouse, 8, 75–78, 80

Smeaton, the, 97–99

Smith, Thomas, 9, 219

Solent, the, 94

Sound, aberration of, 68

South Carolina, lighthouses of, 19–20

South Foreland lighthouse: lighting, 38, 95;

electricity adopted, 218–19;

keepers of the, 314

South Island, N.Z., coastline, 237

South Solitary Island lighthouse, 230, 231

South Stock light, 94

Southey, ballad of the Bell Rock, 96

Spain, early beacons, 3

Spartel Cape lighthouse, 207, 300

Spectacle Reef lighthouse, 74, 210–14, 215–16

Sperm-oil, as luminant, 46

“Spider-web braces,” 201

Spurn Point lighthouse, 38–39

Standard Oil Co., 282

Stannard’s Rock lighthouse, 214, 216

Start Point, 94

Stephens Island, 233

Stevenson, Alan: “Skerryvore,” 9, 100–107;

improvements in lighting, 32–33;

table of distances by, 51–52

Stevenson, Charles, 9

Stevenson, David, “North Unst,” 9

Stevenson, David and Charles: the acetylene gun, 68–71;

the unattended light, 269;

the Platte Fougère fog-signal, 270–71;

the Otter Rock light, 297;

scheme for Rockall, 300

Stevenson, David and Thomas: works carried out by, 15, 53;

the Chicken Rock light, 94;

building of the Dhu-Heartach, 114–20

Stevenson, family of engineers: preeminence of, 8–10;

systems of lighting, 36–38;

adoption of electricity, 219–22;

work in Japan, 258;

characteristics, 305

Stevenson, George, and the Fastnet, 122

Stevenson, Robert, and the Bell Rock lighthouse, 9, 97–100;

Skerryvore, 101

Stevenson, Robert Louis, “A Family of Engineers,” 8–9

Stevenson, Thomas, 9, 222

Stewart Island, 237

Stornoway lighthouse, lighting, 53–54

Strain, Samuel H., 306

Subsidiary lights, 53–55

Suez, 312

Sugar-Loaf Point lighthouse, 232

Sule Skerry lighthouse, 9, 39

Sumatra, 257

“Sun-valve,” the Dalén, 275–78

Superior, Lake, lighting of, 214, 216, 217

Sweden: floating lighthouses, 291;

unattended lighthouses, 277–82

Swift, Captain W. H., the Minot’s Ledge light, 176–78, 182

Sydney lighthouse. See Macquarie Tower

Tararua, steamship, wreck of the, 236, 237

Tay, Firth of, 96

Terawhiti, Cape, 238

Thames lightships, 240–41

Thomas, O. P., 260

Three Kings Rock, 236

Tierra del Fuego, 268

Tillamook Head, 183

Tillamook Rock lighthouse, 13–15, 183–95, 204;

the keepers, 307–8

Tiri-Tiri Island lighthouse, 236–38

Torrain Rocks, 113

Tory Island lighthouse, 39

Trade, Board of:

collection of light dues, 7–8;

and the siren, 61;

Mr. Ingrey’s scheme, 64;

adoption of electricity, 219

Trewavas, John R., death of, 14–15

Triangle Island, British Columbia, light, 174

Trinity House Brethren: purchase of patents, 6;

maintenance of English lights, 7, 26;

adoption of the Daboll trumpet, 60;

and the Eddystone, 77;

and the Wolf Rock, 88–89;

and the Whiteside light, 93;

and the Fastnet, 122;

adoption of electricity, 218, 223;

the light on the Seven Stones, 248

Trinity House Museum: Smeaton’s clock, 76–77;

Bishop Rock fog-bell, 85–86

Triumph, steamship, wreck, 236

Tyndall, Professor, 59

Tyree, island of, 100, 102, 105, 107

United States Corps of Engineers, 63, 198

United States Lighthouse Board, 13 36, 195;

coastline lighting, 20, 196–207;

methods of lighting, 46–47;

inauguration, 198;

extent of control 206–7;

lighting of the Great Lakes, 208–17;

lightship service, 255;

adoption of the Aga light, 294–95

United States Typographical Engineers, 176

Unst, island of, 112

Ushant, 148, 156, 157

Ushant Island, 158

Vancouver, 173;

coastline, 284

Vancouver Island, 174

Victoria, 173

Victoria, steamer, wreck, 303–4

Waipapapa Point lighthouse, 236, 237

Walker, James, 8;

Bishop Rock light, 84–5

Wanganui, N.Z., 233

Water-gas, 48

Wellington, N.Z., 233–4

Weser River estuary, 132

West Indies lighthouses, 309

White ant, ravages of the, 264–66

White Shoal lighthouse, 215, 216

Whiteside light, 92, 93

Whistles on lighthouses, 58

Wigham light, 279–280, 282, 296–97

Willson, Mr. Thomas: the acetylene automatic light, 285–89, 291, 294

Winchelsea, wreck of the, 72, 74

Windward Point, Cuba, 308

Winstanley, Henry: the Eddystone lighthouse, 73

Wireless installation: on the Fastnet, 131;

station, Sable Island, 167;

Belle Ile, Southern Point, 170;

the Eider lightship, 249

Wirral, 16, 309

Wolf Rock lighthouse, 14;

blowing holes, 63, 87–92;

relief, 311

Women as lighthouse-keepers, 314–15

Wrath, Cape, 112

Wreckers of the Wolf Rock, 88;

Chinese, 258–59

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