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Year Established1857EngineerDavid & Thomas Stevenson  

Position Latitude 57° 34.684'N Longitude 005° 57.547'W

CharacterFlashing White every 12 secsElevation69 metres Nominal Range19 nautical miles StructureWhite tower 13 metres high.  

Rona

Rona Map
Rona
 

History

In 1853 the Commissioners' Engineer David Stevenson, who had succeeded his brother Alan in February, prepared a list of 45 possible sites thought desirable to complete a system of lights for the coasts of Scotland. The board named eight which ought to be given priority - Sound of Islay (at or near Port Askaig), Sound of Mull (at or near Tobermory), the north and south entrances to the sounds between Skye and the mainland (Rona and Ornsay), the coast of Sutherland (at or near Stoer Head or Rubh' Re), Holburn Head near Thurso, Cantick Head or Switha in Orkney, and Bressay at the south entrance to Lerwick harbour.

Rubha na Gall (Sound of Mull), Ornsay, Kyleakin, Rona and Ushenish were all lighted on 10 November 1857. On Rona, north of Raasay, a widow named Janet Mackenzie had for many years shown a light in one of her windows which enabled fishing boats to clear the rocks at the harbour entrance, and she had been given a grant of £20 by the Commissioners.
On (Source "Scottish Lighthouses")

Rona light was automated in 1975.

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