Lighthouse of the Week, August 30 - September 5, 2020: Bell Rock, Scotland

 

Almost a year ago, I wrote this post:

Lighthouse of the Week, September 22-28, 2019: A lighthouse article

In the post, I provided a list of twenty of the world's most picturesque lighthouses (which came from a Daily Mail article), and promised to feature some of them subsequently.  And I did.

This is another one on the list.  It is Bell Rock, Scotland, which Wikipedia says is the world's oldest "sea-washed" lighthouse.  Which basically means that at times, the ocean waves hit the base of the lighthouse.  Bell Rock is situationally in the North Sea, about 11 miles off the Scottish coast.

First of all, here's a Web site devoted to the 200th anniversary of the lighthouse, which was in 2011.

Bell Rock Bicentennial

And its basic home Web site:

Bellrock.org.uk

And its basic, impressive stats, from the Lighthouse Directory: 

"1811 (Robert Stevenson). Active; focal plane 28 m (92 ft); white flash every 5 s. 36 m (118 ft) tapered stone tower with lantern and gallery, incorporating keeper's quarters. Tower painted white with a brown band at the base; lantern painted black and covered by a bird-protecting mesh. Bell Rock, also called Inchcape, is an extremely dangerous reef that barely breaks the surface at low tide. Construction of the lighthouse took four years and was justly considered one of the greatest triumphs of early nineteenth century engineering."