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Date: 1892 Client: SAR&H Type: Lighthouse Style: Industrial Archaeology Status: Repurposed

This was a prefabricated cast-iron tower fitted with lenses and lanterns supplied by Chance Brothers of Smethwick, England, floated on a bed of mercury. The location proved ineffective and in 1905 it was decided to dismantle and relocate it as the Port Shepstone Lighthouse to help protect shipping from the Aliwal Shoal. ----------------- "The Scottsburg (sic) lighthouse, on the hill to the right, is 23 feet high, and is the southern of the two lights which mark the vicinity of the dangerous shoal, the northern light being exhibited from a similar lighthouse about five miles distant." (Source: CW Francis Harrison. 1903. Natal: An illustrated official railway guide and handbook of general information. p. 188.) References: Williams, Harold. 1993. Southern Lights : Lighthouses of Southern Africa. Cape Town: William Waterman Publications. pg 93-94 (ill)