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 Siemsen was appointed chief of the "Servicio de Faros". He built the "Faro Corona" in Ancud, "Punta Caldera" in Atacama, "Punta Tortugas" in Coquimbo, "Isla Quiriquina" in Quiriquina, "Punta Galera" and "Punta Niebla" in Corral. The first lighthouses in Chile used colza oil as fuel, but in 1878 it was replaced by Bunsen burners. George Slight designed and built in the 1890s more than 70 of today's historic lighthouses of Chile. He was a Scottish engineer who moved to Chile and eventually became the head of the Chilean Maritime Signaling Service. As of 2013, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) lists