4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
19. Januar 2011
Ort:
North Sea Arbroath Scotland UK Great Britain Europe
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The Bell Rock Lighthouse celebrated its 200th birthday on the 1st of February 2011. The Bell Rock was designed and built by John Rennie and Robert Stevenson, but is probably most notably regarded as Robert Stevenson's greatest engineering achievement. It was on the 17th August 1807 that Robert Stevenson sailed with twenty-four men from Arbroath for the dreaded Inchcape rock to start work. It was not until July the following year that the Foundation Stone was eventually laid and work progressed at pace until it was complete and shone for the first time for the safety of the mariner on the first day of February 1811, described as “like a star of the first magnitude”. The Bell Rock has seen many passing ships and events since that day and the keepers who have looked after it have come and gone. Automated in 1988 the light is now only accessed by helicopter once a year for routine maintenance by the Northern Lighthouse Board engineers and their ship NLV PHAROS. Now when daylight falls and rises, a light sensor switches the light on and off. The status of the light and all its associated equipment is relayed back to the Northern Lighthouse Board head office in Edinburgh.
