the Pharos lightship
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 Beacon’s First Night…ty feet by sixteen, crowded now with bodies that had expected to sleep that night on the Smeaton, moored a mile off, or to be rowed back to the Pharos lightship and the mainland beyond. Because the rock was covered by water for 20 hours each day, the men had first lived on a ship, but that system ha…
- The Reckoning in the Workyard…ert her to a coastal trader. The depreciation—£430 in four years of hard service—was entered in the accounts as a loss against the project. The Pharos lightship, which had been hired rather than purchased, was returned to her owners in 1811, her service at the Bell Rock concluded. These transactions…