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Details
Year Established
1857
Engineer
David & Thomas Stevenson
Position
Latitude
57° 34.684'N
Longitude
005° 57.547'W
Character
Flashing White every 12 secs
Elevation
69 metres
Nominal Range
19 nautical miles
Structure
White tower 13 metres high.
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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