Casquets lighthouses per ton of ship when vessels passed the rocks and in turn he paid Trinity House 50 pounds per year for the right to run the lighthouses. The lighthouses reverted to Trinity House in 1785. They were converted to oil lamps with metal reflectors which were first used on 25 November 1790; and upgraded again with apparatus to rotate a beam of light in 1818. This had a clockwork mechanism which was wound up every hour and a half and gave one flash every 15 seconds. The lighthouses were badly damaged and the lanterns smashed in a severe storm on
Lighthouses in Chile Lighthouses in Chile Chile has a large and intricate coast line of 4000 km with myriads of islands, islets, straits, bays, and fjords. Moreover, three waterways between the Pacific ocean and the Atlantic ocean, namely the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel and the Drake Passage, pass the Chilean coasts. In order to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, and safe entries to harbors, the Chilean authorities maintain 650 lighthouses from the border with Peru to the Atlantic ocean. On 18 September 1857, the first lighthouse in Chile, the "Faro Angeles", was inaugurated in Valparaíso. In 1867, the Dane Enrique