The Lighthouse Stevensons - Bella Bathurst [138]
Elizabeth (brig) 4
Elizabeth I, Queen 7
engineering
development of status 39-40, 115, 199-200
English Lighthouse service see Trinity House
English lighthouses see lighthouses, English
Enlightenment 39-40, 111
European lighthouses 22
Faraday, Michael 221-2
Flannan Isles lighthouse disappearance of keepers 248-51
Forth 6-7, 8, 23
Fortune, Peter 97
France 9-10
French lighthouses 138
Fresnel, Augustin xvii, xix, 137-8, 139, 140, 142-3, 157, 178
Fresnel, Leonor 137-8, 157
George IV, King 117
Gibson, Wilfred 249-50
Glasgow 40
Glen, James 91
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) 261
GPS (Global Positioning Service) 261, 264
Gray, John 53, 54, 72
Great Storm (1703) 61
Hall, Henry 61
Hebrides 29
Henri III, King 138
Highlands
and Clearances 111, 161, 186
potato blight 186
Hill, Mr 175
Hillary, Sir William 5, 258-9
Hogben, Mr 166
Hume, David 38
Hume, Sir Joseph 141, 142, 159
Hutcheson Bridge 129
Hutchison, Angus 255
Inchcape Rock see Bell Rock
Inchkeith 7
Inchkeith lighthouse 49, 139, 185, 186
Indian lighthouses 219, 232
Institute of Civil Engineers 179
Irish lighthouses 22, 141, 142
Isle of Man 117
Isle of May lighthouse 6, 22-3, 27, 222
Isle of Sanday 31, 53-4
Japan 219
Johnson, Samuel 24
JP Wheeler (ship) 224
keepers see lighthouse keepers
Kidnapped (R.L. Stevenson) xiv, xix, 223
Kinnaird Head lighthouse 21, 24, 26, 253
Kintyre lighthouse 130-1
Knight, Captain 149
Lees, Sir Edward 114
lenses 49-50, 253
and Alan Stevenson 144, 157-8, 185-6
Brewster’s dispute over 139-41, 143
and Fresnel 137, 138-9, 140, 142-3
installation of in lighthouses 185-6
new dioptric holophotal light 220
and Skerryvore lighthouse 178, 185, 187, 191
life preserver 118-19
lifeboats 260 see also RNLI
Lighthouse Commissioners 22, 32, 55
and Bell Rock lighthouse 66, 67, 69-71, 73-4, 76-7
relationship with the Engineer 21
and Skerryvore lighthouse 148-9, 150, 153
see also NLB
lighthouse keepers 87, 186, 236-56
acts of courage 247-8
and alcohol 243
appointment and role of first 25-7
arguments and grudges between 245
and automation 236, 254-5
behaviour expected of 238-9
at Bell Rock 97-8, 179, 251
crimes committed by 243-4
diet and medication 242-3
disappearance of at Flannan Isles 248-51
duties and routine 240, 241, 247, 253
improvement in terms of employment 186
lighthouses favoured and disliked by 251
problems for 252
qualifications and qualities required 237, 255-6
reading matter for 241-2
recruitment of by NLB and
numbers employed 237
and Robert Stevenson 87, 238, 239, 241, 244-5
and saving of life 246-7
at Skerryvore lighthouse 179, 251
vetting of 241
visited by missionaries 242
and wives 240-1
lighthouses
in ancient world 22
automation of 236, 254-5
difficulties faced in building early xv-xvi
early European 22
French 138
inefficiency of coal 23
isolation of technology development 50
opposition to 27-9
and optics see optics
organisation divided by nation xvi
parliamentary select committee review of authorities and recommendations 141-2
pressure from shipowners to build 11-12
role 265
Trinity House takes on overall supervisory role 142
use of paraffin 252-3
lighthouses, English 24
development xvi-xvii, 56
differences between Scottish and 57
and electric lighting 221-2
objection to 28
private building xvii, 56, 57
tour of by Robert Stevenson 55-6
see also Eddystone lighthouse; Trinity House
lighthouses, Scottish 46, 234, 255
act passed to construct first four lighthouses 21, 246
construction of first four 24-5
development xvii
differences between English and 57
recent 255
see also individual names; NLB
lighting see optics
Lillie, Jean 17, 18, 19, 23, 33, 42
Little Ross lighthouse 187, 245
Lloyds of London 225
Lochoir, James 27
Logan, David 113
Macauley, Robert 247
McCaig, Norman 1
Mackenzie, Compton 31
Mackenzie, Murdoch 8
Maconochie, Sheriff