Sentence examples for first lighthouse of from inspiring English sources

Following the Eddystone, masonry towers were erected in similar open-sea sites, which include the Smalls, off the Welsh coast; Bell Rock in Scotland South Rockk in Ireland; and Minots Ledge off Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. The first lighthouse of the North American continent, built in 1716, was on the island of Little Brewster, also off Boston.

The disaster led the authorities to decide to mount the first lighthouse on Fastnet, one made of cast-iron, it being the metal of the age.

Cordouan thus became the first lighthouse to be built in the open sea, the true forerunner of such rock structures as the Eddystone Lighthouse.

The first lighthouse (1696 99), built of timber, was swept away with its designer, Henry Winstanley, by the great storm of 1703.

Sold in 1849 to the U.S. government, Alcatraz was the site of the first lighthouse (1854) on the coast of California.

Among the more interesting harbours of the ancient world are Alexandria, which had on the island of Pharos the first lighthouse in the world; Piraeus, the port of Athens; Ostia, the port of Rome Syracusee; Carthage, destroyed and rebuilt by the Romans; Rhodes; and Tyre and Sidon, ports of the earliest important navigators, the Phoenicians.

The following year the first lighthouse was built on top of a promontory at Stony Point.

The building of Stroma's first lighthouse in the late 19th century was initially opposed by some of the islanders who were more concerned with profiting from shipwrecks than preventing them.

The Gay Head lighthouse, the first lighthouse built on Martha's Vineyard, is threatened by erosion, the trust said.

It was one of the first lighthouses in Scotland to use this type of "scintillating" light.

The first lighthouses were built centuries ago to guide mariners.