Bill Gault was there at the end of a 200-year-old tradition of manned lighthouses.
By Elizabeth QuigleyWhen Bill Gault and his colleagues locked up Fair Isle South Lighthouse on Shetland 25 years ago it signalled the end of a 200-year-old tradition of manned beacons."It was a day to remember, although it's true to say no lighthouse keeper raised a smile."
Mr Gault had been a lighthouse keeper for 32 years and was based at 22 different stations across Scotland during his career. "We had to cope with bad weather and the isolation of being stranded on the lighthouse at times," he says. Mr Gault says: "On the night that the Longhope lifeboat was lost, I was on the island of Copinsay in Orkney, and the storm was storm force 10 gusting 11 at times, winds hitting over 100 miles an hours and this tragedy happening."Even in the storm conditions, we could see what had happened in the distance.""In the meantime, mountainous seas in the Pentland Firth had rolled the lifeboat over," Mr Gault says.
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