Inchcape
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 Stone Against the Sea…from the Greenland fishery, noted that the flash—two seconds of light, two seconds of darkness—was distinguishable from the fixed light at Inchcape, twelve miles to the north, and from the revolving light at the Isle of May, twenty miles to the south. The distinction mattered. A mariner…