3-074-560 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New lighthouse on the Brothers Rocks, Red Sea, 1883. 'The newly-erected lighthouse on the North Brothers Rock in the middle of the Red Sea, in latitude 26 deg. 18 min. 50 sec. north of the equator, longitude 34 deg. 50 min. 44 sec. east, is shown in our Illustration. The "Brothers" are two small coral islets; the northern one, on which the new tower and dwellings are built, being 33 feet above high-water mark. The lighthouse is a white stone tower carrying a dioptric fixed white light of the fourth order, visible twelve miles. The light is 71 feet above the water line. The whole of the work has been carried out under the orders of his Excellency Morice Pasha, R.N., Controller-General of the Lighthouse Administration, and superintended by Hardcastle Bey, the Deputy Controller-General, assisted by Mr. Grafton. The buildings have been constructed entirely by native labour, of stone found on the spot, and lime burned on the island. The new light has been exhibited since June 4, the former beacon there having been removed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.