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 on the Isle of Arran since. The light Fl(2)20s38m25M. Lighthouses on the Isle of Arran Three lighthouses can be found around the shores of the island of Arran in the Firth of Clyde. One is located on the Isle of Pladda in the South and the other two can be found on Holy Isle in Lamlash Bay to the East of Arran. All three are still in service and maintained by the Northern Lighthouse Board. They are now fully automatic since the electrification of both lighthouses on Holy Isle in 1977. Until up to the appointment of the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses (later Northern