The Lighthouse Stevensons - Bella Bathurst [139]
Malacca Straits lighthouse 220
Malayan lighthouses 219-20
Manby, Captain George 1-2, 3
and mortar line 3-4, 4-5, 119
maps 8
inaccuracy of Scottish 8-9
Marchbank, Principal Keeper 206
mariners
deaths 2, 3
first beacons for xv
improvement in conditions 117-18
life of 11
and navigation 7
and press gangs 52-3
and qualifications 263-4
Melville, Herman 257
Melville, James 149
Merchant Shipping Act (1876) 259
Michael, Donald 256
Middlemiss, George 174
mortar line 3-4, 4-5, 119
Muckle Flugga 204, 212-13
Muckle Flugga lighthouse xix, 203-8, 233, 234
difficulties encountered in building 204-5
finishing 208
and keepers 251
ordeal of weather 205-6, 208
use of brick instead of stone 207-8
Muirhead, Robert 250
Mull of Galloway 117
Mull of Kintyre lighthouse 21, 25, 245
navigation 7-8
Neill, Patrick 107, 132
Netherlands, King of 102
New Zealand 232
NLB (Northern Lighthouse Board) 28, 32, 184
and automation of lighthouses 254
and Brewster’s allegations 140-1
caution over electric lighting 222
employment of keepers 237
foundation 20-1
and lighthouse construction 46, 116
and parliamentary select committee review of and recommendations 141-2
relationship with Trinity House 50, 208, 234
and Stevensons xx, 233
see also Lighthouse Commissioners
North Ronaldsay lighthouse 21, 26-7, 54
North Unst 203-4
Northern Lighthouse Board see NLB
Northern Lighthouse Trust 20-1
see also NLB
oil lamps xvii, 48-9
On Memory as an Agent of Retributive Justice (Alan Stevenson) 216
optics
and electricity xix, 221-2, 253-4
lenses see lenses
and oil lamps xvii, 48-9
reflectors see reflectors
Orcadians 53
Park, James 26
Peebles, Charles 55
Pentland Firth 6, 49, 245
Pepys, Samuel xvi-xvii
Pettingal, Reverend 124, 125
Pharos of Alexandria 22
piracy 117
Pirate, The (Scott) 103
Plimsoll, Samuel 118, 259
Pork Patrick lighthouse 240
potato blight 186
press gangs 52-3, 54-5, 87, 117, 204
Primrose, William 252
Quarterly Review 183
Records of a Family of Engineers (R.L. Stevenson) 16, 136, 190
reflectors 25
comparison between English and Scottish 57
Robert Stevenson’s refinements to 48
Smith’s early designs 19-20
transition to lenses from 157
Reid, John 97, 98
Rennie, John 40
background 74-5
and Bell Rock lighthouse 74-5, 76, 77, 79, 86, 87, 91, 93
dispute with Stevenson over Bell Rock 99-101
Rennie, Sir John (son) 101
Ritson, James 113
RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) 5, 258-9
Royal High School (Edinburgh) 121-2
Royal Scottish Society of Art 182
Royal Society of Edinburgh 139, 140, 212
Royal Society for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck 5
Royal Yachting Association (RYA) 263
Rudyerd, John 61
Russia 202
sailors see mariners
Sam, John 48
Sanday see Isle of Sanday
Scandinavia 10
Scot, George 27
Scotsman 143
Scott, Sir Walter xviii, 102-5, 107, 113, 122, 149
Scottish coast 5-6
difficulty in navigating 7-8
obstacles to mariners 6-7
Scottish Enlightenment 39-40, 111
Scottish Lighthouse service see NLB
Scottish lighthouses see lighthouses, Scottish
Scottish Privy Council 23
sea
accidents and incidents at 262-3
deaths at 259, 260, 262
history of safety and lifesaving 258-62
importance 9
Shetlands 202-3
Shipping Act (1890) 260
ships
safety of 118-19, 260-1
shipwrecks xv, 3, 7, 9, 28-9, 259
and Bell Rock 68, 69
and Dhu Heartach 224
establishment of parliamentary committee inquiry into 117-18
and lighthouse keepers 246, 247
mortality rate 118
numbers 10-11
salvaging 2, 29-30
and Skerryvore 148
see also wreckers
Skerryvore 6, 104
dangers and hazards 148, 151-2
preliminary surveys 152
Robert Stevenson’s survey 150-1
Skerryvore lighthouse xiii, xviii, 145-54, 159-79, 190-1, 212, 216, 225
authorisation for commencement of construction 159-60
book on by Stevenson 183-4
building of barracks 163-4, 165, 166-7
building of tower 176-8
conditions for workmen 171-2, 174, 175
description and features 145-6