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The
New Eddystone
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Centuries
of Civil Engineering
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Edwards, E. Price
The Eddystone Lighthouses (New and Old): An account of the Building,
and general arrangements, of the new tower.
London: Simpkin, Marshall,
1882.
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In 1882 John Smeaton’s lighthouse of 1759 was replaced
by a new tower, constructed on a nearby rock. There was nothing wrong with
Smeaton’s structure – it had withstood well the batterings of the sea
for 120 years – but the rock on which it had been built was beginning to
erode away beneath it. The new structure, designed and erected by James
Douglass, was twice as tall as the original, and four times as massive.
Smeaton’s lighthouse would shortly be partially
dismantled, with the lower half left in place and the upper half
re-erected at Plymouth as a monument. This view shows the two still
together, with the Douglass lighthouse in the foreground, and Smeaton’s
structure behind it.
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