History of lighthouses with demands, and to the loss of a number of ships, most notably the Dutch merchant ship Vreede in 1800 with the loss of 380 lives. After the reforms of the Lighthouse Act 1836, owners still managed to collect large dues, of which the largest were for the Smalls Lighthouse which collected £23,000 in 1852 and Trinity House was forced to spend over £1m in buying back leases, including £444,000 for the Skerries Lighthouse. The modern era of lighthouses began at the turn of the 18th century, as lighthouse construction boomed in lockstep with burgeoning levels of transatlantic commerce. Advances
Lighthouses in Norway been operated along the Norwegian coast. "Enigheden" off Ålesund from 1856 vas replaced with Lepsøyrev lighthouse in 1879, and "Ildjernsflu" moored off Nesodden from 1914 until it was scrapped in 1968. This list, not complete, is sorted by location along the shipping lane, from the border with Sweden in south, to Russia in northeast. The Norwegian Coastal Administration run a total of 5000 different navigational lights along the coast. This list only cover the lighthouse stations. Lighthouses in Norway The coast of Norway is 100,915 km long and there have been a total of 212 lighthouses along it, but no