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 650 lighthouses in Chile and according to "Faros de Chile" 18 of them were inhabited in 2009. There are no lightvessels in Chile, but 2 shipwrecks are used as a basis for lighthouses: the "County of Peebles" is used as breakwater in the harbour of Punta Arenas, and the "Capitán Leonidas" is located in the Messier Channel. The Chilean official list of lighthouses is the "Lista de Faros de la costa de Chile, Costa Oriental de Tierra del Fuego y Territorio Antártico" published (as Nr. 3007) by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy (SHOA) Navigational aids in