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Completion of the construction work did not result in an end to the hazards. At low tide the landing stage is forty feet above a boat, yet not completely out of the reach of the swell. Landings other than via the precarious use of dangling ropes from a derrick were most unusual even on calm days. The
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Despite these hardships a 36-foot-diameter (11-metre) foundation pit was excavated and by 1869 a solid portion of tower rising 32 feet (9.8 m) above foundation level had been completed. This was no mean feat. On one occasion eleven two-ton stones were dislodged from the third course of stonework
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The men sat high up prisoned in their iron drum, that then resounded with the lashings of the sprays ... It was then that the foreman builder, Mr. Goodwillie, whom I see before me in his rock-habit of indecipherable rags, would get his fiddle down and strike up human minstrelsy amid the music of
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It would be ungenerous if a great and dangerous work like this were brought unsuccessfully to an end and no praise should be given to such men as Mr Brebner the resident Superintendent, Mr MacGregor the captain of the steamer, Mr Goodwillie the master-builder on the rock and Mr Irvine the landing
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The first principal keeper was James Ewing who looked after the light for the next eleven years. Despite the exceptionally adverse conditions faced by the keepers, which resulted in them receiving additional payments in kind, Ewing was not the only one who served the light for a decade or more.
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master. If full justice were to be done, the list should be much longer, but I can only add that out of all the workmen who took their lives in their hand to finish the Dhu Heartach Lighthouse, there were very few who turned poltroon. And this is the common history of all such undertakings.
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storm seas could rise to extraordinary heights. In the first year of operation, the copper lightning conductor was wrenched out of its sockets by a storm at a height of 92 feet (28 m) above high water.
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Between 1800 and 1854 thirty ships were wrecked on the reef; however, the requirement for a lighthouse was not only to warn seafarers away from Dhu Heartach itself, but also to guide them past the fearsome
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was £65,784, excluding the £10,300 cost of establishing the shore station on Erraid. However, the extraordinary nature of the work should not be reduced to mere numbers. Stevenson was moved to note that:
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with all thirty-three hands on her maiden voyage in 1863 and of an astonishing 24 vessels in the area in a storm on 30–31 December 1865 encouraged positive action under pressure from insurers
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An ugly reef is this of the Dhu Heartach; no pleasant assemblage of shelves, and pools, and creeks, about which a child might play for a whole summer without weariness, like the
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it is likely that Dubh Heartach was at the western edge of a large land bridge linking what is now the island of Ireland to Scotland. This land mass included the islands of
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However, some found the lonely rock and its cramped quarters less to their taste. One had to be prevented from diving into the sea and attempting to swim ashore.
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The solid base weighing 1,840 tons rises more than 64 feet (20 m) above the pounding seas, more than twice as high as its nearest British rival of
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Steadily rising sea levels would then have slowly isolated and finally all but submerged Dhu Heartach, which today is a rounded, dark green mass of
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A dispute concerning the financing of lighthouses led to an 1898 visit to Dubh Artach of some prominent persons, including the President of the
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Robert Louis Stevenson's connection with the construction of Dubh Artach and its shore station played a significant part in his 1886 novel
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and carried off the rock, never to be seen again. Robert Stevenson noted that this destruction occurred at the same height "above the sea
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and a Captain Bedford of the Admiralty. The engineering work was supervised by the famous Stevenson family of engineers, the brothers
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Stevenson believed that 'black and dismal' was a translation of the name, noting that "as usual, in Gaelic, it is not the only one."
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In pre-historic times Dhu Heartach was covered by the ice sheets that spread from Scotland out into the Atlantic Ocean beyond the
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with a tower height of 145 feet (44 m) was erected between 1867 and 1872 with a shore station constructed on the isle of
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In 1890 a distinctive red band was painted round the middle section of the tower to distinguish it from
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was constructed to enable maintenance work to be undertaken without the need for sea landings. The
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In 1874 the principal keeper reported an incident which suggested that the rock had experienced an
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commencing work in 1866. Thomas noted that "it would be a work of no ordinary magnitude".
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where the final of in pronunciation seemingly is part of the following word, suggesting
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Isle of Erraid website – early history including Stevenson's construction of Dubh Artach
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is the official name of the lighthouse, although the skerry itself is also known as
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rise of land makes estimating post-glacial coastlines a complex task, circa 14,000
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tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern incorporating keeper's quarter
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The lighthouse was fully automated in 1971 and the following year a
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being a now obsolete Gaelic word for a rock or rocky ground both in
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Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland
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and was probably connected to the mainland of Scotland by an
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as the glass panes in the lantern of Smeaton's lighthouse
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The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire
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Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands
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McKirdy, Alan Gordon, John & Crofts, Roger (2007)
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Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 7 September 2008.
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The name of the lighthouse was changed in 1964 from
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The land base for the construction of the light was
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Dubh Artach Lighthouse
Scottish Gaelic
[t̪uhˈarˠʃt̪əx]
Dubh Artach skerry and lighthouse in 2014
Dubh Artach is located in Argyll and Bute
OS grid reference
NM119030
Coordinates
56°08′N 6°38′W / 56.13°N 6.63°W / 56.13; -6.63
Isle of Mull
Council area
Argyll and Bute
Country
Scotland
United Kingdom
Demographics
/dˈɑːrtɑːx/
[t̪uhˈarˠʃt̪əx]
skerry
basalt
Scotland
Colonsay
Ross of Mull
lighthouse
Thomas Stevenson
Erraid
Outer Hebrides
isostatic
BP
Jura

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