James Dove
Books
- Eleven Miles Out Robert Stevenson, John Rennie, and the Building of the Bell Rock Lighthouse · Liszt Think
Eleven miles off the Scottish coast, a reef lies submerged for twenty hours a day. In the early nineteenth century, raising a granite tower on this treacherous foundation seemed impossible.
- The Engineer’s Apprenticeship…ride away. He recruited Peter Logan as master mason, establishing a partnership that would last through the Bell Rock and beyond. He hired James Dove, a foreman from Arbroath, whose skill with difficult stone would become essential. And he developed the administrative habits the Board’s s…
- A Ship Moored Over the Reef…weather, knowing that every hour of delay reduced the chances of the men he had left on the reef. The ship’s master, a practical man named James Dove, offered to attempt the passage in the Smeaton itself once the wind moderated. This was not a generous offer. It was a necessary one. The S…
- The Beacon House on the Rock…to bear weight at all. By the season’s end, the beacon house stood complete, and with it came the transformation that Stevenson had sought. James Dove climbed the platform among the first. He was a mason, thirty years old, with experience on the Pentland Skerries light that Stevenson had b…