Wrought-iron lighthouse on the Daedalus Reef, in the Red Sea, 1862. 'The great intercourse which is carried what is called the overland route, has made the Red Sea almost an English the Viceroy of Egypt [agreed to] erect lighthouses on the most dangerous points of the the British Government would present the lanterns and light apparatus and the services of an became necessary to devise a structure with the least possible quantity of material. That material must be in pieces of convenient dimensions to over the reef in very shallow
Wrought-iron lighthouse on the Daedalus Reef, in the Red Sea, 1862. 'The great intercourse which is carried what is called the overland route, has made the Red Sea almost an English the Viceroy of Egypt [agreed to] erect lighthouses on the most dangerous points of the the British Government would present the lanterns and light apparatus and the services of an became necessary to devise a structure with the least possible quantity of material. That material must be in pieces of convenient dimensions to over the reef in very shallow rests upon twelve pillars of teak sixteen feet inclosed with a concrete formed of English Portland cement, mixed with a due proportion of coral superstructure consists of a framework of wrought by Messrs. G. Forrester and lanterns and constructed by Messrs. Wilkins and Co., the optical part of the latter having been furnished by Messrs. The Daedalus light is a dioptric fixed light of the second order, and, being raised 60ft. above the sea, will be visible from a ship's deck at a distance of fourteen miles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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