COLLECTION NAME: 3D STEREOSCOPIC CARD
OBJECT DETAILS
Object ID: SC0011
Description: NLB Lightship North Carr at the North Carr Rocks 1908. Taken from onboard NLV Pharos or NLV Hesperus.
Date Made: 1908
Artist/Maker: C Dick Peddie
Place Made: Scotland
Materials: CARD
Measurements: 7" x 3"
Parts:PHOTOGRAPHY
Gallery Location: Not Currently On Display
People/Provenance: Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse tender vessel commissioners tour 1908. Similar collection held at Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
Description: NLB Lightship North Carr at the North Carr Rocks 1908. Taken from onboard NLV Pharos or NLV Hesperus.
Date Made: 1908
Artist/Maker: C Dick Peddie
Place Made: Scotland
Materials: CARD
Measurements: 7" x 3"
Parts:PHOTOGRAPHY
Gallery Location: Not Currently On Display
People/Provenance: Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse tender vessel commissioners tour 1908. Similar collection held at Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
Credit: Following The Lights Collection
1908 on board Hesperus with view of NLV Pharos.
Back of stereoscopic card, hand written 1908.
FACT SHEET SC0011
The commissioners to this day still undertake an annual inspection tour around the lighthouses. In 1908 this tour starting in Leith visits Dunnet Head Lighthouse via the North Carr Lightship and Stromness Orkney.
The (NLV) Northern Lighthouse Vessels seen in the image collection include Pharos and Hesperus.
In this image you can see the North Carr Lightship at the North Carr Rocks Station 1908, built in Dundee by Alexander Stephen and sons in 1889, it was made of wood and the vessel had no propulsion. There were 3 vessels named North Carr used at this station, the first made of wood was on loan from Trinity House. The image taken from NLV Hesperus or NLV Pharos shows the second vessel used at the station. The third vessel and the only one that survives to this day can be found at Dundee. (www.NC100.org) With the Northern Lighthouse Board covering the Isle of Man and Scotland, two lightships were stationed there including Whitestone Bank and Bahama Bay.
The cones or spheres on the light vessels were used to ships approaching in daylight, by using a telescope crews could identify which light vessel they could see in the distance. Similarly with light flashes at night from the vessel.
In this image the conical cage would have been assigned to the North Carr vessel as her day marker for the station.
The commissioners to this day still undertake an annual inspection tour around the lighthouses. In 1908 this tour starting in Leith visits Dunnet Head Lighthouse via the North Carr Lightship and Stromness Orkney.
The (NLV) Northern Lighthouse Vessels seen in the image collection include Pharos and Hesperus.
In this image you can see the North Carr Lightship at the North Carr Rocks Station 1908, built in Dundee by Alexander Stephen and sons in 1889, it was made of wood and the vessel had no propulsion. There were 3 vessels named North Carr used at this station, the first made of wood was on loan from Trinity House. The image taken from NLV Hesperus or NLV Pharos shows the second vessel used at the station. The third vessel and the only one that survives to this day can be found at Dundee. (www.NC100.org) With the Northern Lighthouse Board covering the Isle of Man and Scotland, two lightships were stationed there including Whitestone Bank and Bahama Bay.
The cones or spheres on the light vessels were used to ships approaching in daylight, by using a telescope crews could identify which light vessel they could see in the distance. Similarly with light flashes at night from the vessel.
In this image the conical cage would have been assigned to the North Carr vessel as her day marker for the station.
