CAPE FAREWELL LIGHT-HOUSE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 485, 1 April 1869, Page 2

CAPE FAREWELL LIGHT-HOUSE.

The light-house on Cape Campbell consists of a powerful hexagonal framework of Tasmanian timber, sixty feet in height exclusive of the lantern ; the main uprights are sixty feet long, in one length ; the lower portions of the tower will be an open framework ; the stairs being fixed to the external walls, making the approach to the upper store and lightrooms a series of flights and galleries, so as to ease the labor in ascending; the light-room is planked and caulked to resist the weather, -and give greater stability to the tower ; the external walls are strengthened with diagonal braces, radial ties of Uin. iron, and powerful knees, well bolted and secured to their several places. The light-keeper's quarters are very commodious and substantial. The light house on Capo Farewell is, in every respect, an enlargement of the one for Capo Campbell —it is 100 feet high, the main timbers being exclusively Tasmanian timber, stringy bark, or blue gum- To give greater strength to tho increased height, guy ropes of galvanised iron wire are to be fixed to each antrlo nnr) snnurert to the ground by serew piles—specially designed for this purpose ; tho framework of the lower is held together by a novel combination of radial ties composed of ljin. rods. By this arrangement any shrinkage of the timbers at the various points of abutment can be closed by screwing up the nuts. Tho whole of the plans are by J. M. Balfour, Esq., Marine Engineer, and appear to combine simplicity of design with great strength and adaptability to the purposes.