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 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