Posted on 02/28/2018 8:49:33 AM PST by Thistooshallpass9
By the beginning of the 1800s, Bell Rock in Scotland’s Firth of Forth was responsible for wrecking numerous ships each year. In just one of such wrecks, 491 sailors were killed. It was clear to everyone that sailors needed to be warned about Bell Rock. But since the Rock was 11 miles from shore, and submerged by the sea for all but two hours a day, most all the experts believed it would be impossible to construct a to build a lighthouse there. For Robert Stevenson, the challenge of building a lighthouse on Bell Rock—in order to improve his corner of the world—would become an obsession.
I believe that’s where the screw-pile was first used.
CC
Is that like a cluster.....?
Very interesting. I didn’t realize that. One fascinating bit of trivia is that the Robert Stevenson who built the lighthouse was the grand father of Robert Louis Stevenson.
What is this place? I don’t think that is Bell Rock.
Was there anything Scot engineers could not accomplish, once they set their minds to it?
I knew a family who had lived in the UK for many years. Father, a facilities engineer, worked on a number of DOD contracts. His kids received primary education in England, then they moved to support a facility in Scotland.
He related that in the parent-teacher conference after the first semester in Scottish schools, the headmistress told him that the sasenach schools had shortchanged his children. They had to take remedial courses to reach Scottish educational standards.
If you go to save the image, you get: “Old Photograph Bass Rock Firth Of Forth Scotland.jpg”
Ok yeah, that is what I had seen in other photos of it. Appreciate your posting that.
That is The Bass Rock, or simply the Bass, is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth. It’s on of a chain of volcanic plugs running in an east - west line across the ‘waist’ of Scotland.
Yes, but British.
CC
I have two old boilers in one of my buildings which the nameplate labels as “Scotch Generators”.
If those two 300 HP boilers are generating Scotch, none of us will ever be sober!
Sorry about that.
Never heard it referred to as the “waist” of Scotland, but it makes perfect sense.
Tthe tallest mountain in the UK is at the west end of that waist, near fort something or other. It’s where I proposed to my wife!
Riding out a gale in that would put some grey in your hair.
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