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 Chile Chile are provided by the "Servicio de Señalización Marítima" [Maritime Signalling Service], a department of the "Dirección de Seguridad y Operaciones Marítimas" (Dirsomar) [Directorate of Maritime Security and Operations], of the "Dirección General del Territorio Marítimo y de Marina Mercante" (Directemar) [Directorate General of the Maritime Territory and the Merchant Marine] of the Chilean Navy. In 1900, the ship "Meteoro" was built in Chile for the maintenance of lighthouses. Today, the Chilean Navy ship "George Slight" (BRS-63) is in service to serve the lighthouses. The United States' National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) lists 650 lighthouses (and 26 Argentine lighthouses in the