Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Preliminary arrangements and works, including survey of the rocks, and opening of quarries from 1834 to 1837 -- Survey of the Skerryvore rocks -- Disadvantages of Tyree -- Pier and workyard at Hynish, Tyree -- Quarries at Hynish -- Skerryvore Committee appointed, 37
Preliminary arrangements and works, including survey of the rocks, and opening of quarries from 1834 to 1837 -- Survey of the Skerryvore rocks -- Disadvantages of Tyree -- Pier...
3. CHAPTER IV.Temporary Barrack on Rock -- Tools and machinery -- Steam Tender for the works -- Employment and wages of workmen -- Progress of the outfit for the season’s operations -- Embark...
4. CHAPTER V.Shipping station and pier at Hynish -- Granite quarries in Mull -- Observations on the quarrying of granite -- Dressing of the Lighthouse blocks -- Excavation of foundation for...
5. CHAPTER VI.6. CHAPTER VII.7. CHAPTER VIII.8. CHAPTER IX.Harbour works -- Bo Pheg beacon -- Light-keepers’ and seamen’s houses -- Concluding works on the Rock, such as pointing, &c. -- Interior fittings of the Tower -- Light-room appa...
9. PART II.Early history, 181 -- Colossus of Rhodes, 182 -- Pharos of Alexandria, 183 -- Coruna Tower, 187 -- Lighthouse at the mouth of the Quadalquivir, 188 -- Ancient Phari in Britain,...
10. CHAPTER I.From the great difficulty of access to the inhospitable rock of Skerryvore, which is exposed to the full fury of the Atlantic, and is surrounded by an almost perpetual surf, the...
11. CHAPTER II.In this chapter I shall very briefly notice those preliminary arrangements which may be said to have been in a great measure preparatory to the commencement of the work itself....
12. CHAPTER III.In this chapter I purpose, in the first place, to make a few observations regarding the construction of Lighthouse Towers in situations which are exposed to the assault of the w...
13. CHAPTER IV.The hazardous nature of the anchorage, and the consequent difficulty of mooring a vessel in the neighbourhood of the Skerryvore Rock, induced me, from the first, to consider it...
14. CHAPTER V.During the winter months which intervened between November 1838 and March 1839, a small detachment of men, consisting of three masons, nine quarriers, and one smith, were left a...
15. CHAPTER VI.In describing the progress of the works during the season of 1840, I shall speak of the various departments separately, as in the last chapter, beginning with the workyard at Hy...
16. CHAPTER VII.The workyard at Hynish presented a very busy scene during the summer and winter of 1840; and the desolation and misery of the surrounding hamlets of Tyree seemed to enhance the...
17. CHAPTER VIII.On the 17th of April 1842, I made my first landing on the Skerryvore, for the season, and found traces of very heavy seas having passed over the Rock during the preceding winter...
18. CHAPTER IX.The shores of Tyree, as already often noticed in these pages, and as deplored by Martin 140 years ago, in his Account of the Hebrides, afford few places of safety fit even for b...