Flannan Isles Lighthouse & The Atlas Vampire #37

It was on 15th December 1900 that the last entries were noted by the Keepers at Flannan Isle Lighthouse. Now over 100 years later, what happened on that day remains a mystery. A mystery that has captured the imagination of the public ever since. There have been many books written about the Flannans and in 2018, the film The Vanishing was released to a worldwide audience. Despite the intrigue and dramatised speculation of what may have happened, we have to remember three keepers lost their lives and the families of these three men, to this day, do not know their fate. The loss of the three Keepers from the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in 1900 is a significant and very sad part of our history. We pay tribute to these keepers, who served the Northern Lighthouse Board so well over the years, and can only report what was recorded at that time. The keepers were: James Ducat, Principal Thomas Marshall, 2nd Assistant Donald McArthur, Occasional Keeper – doing duty for William Ross, 1st Assistant, on sick leave. Their disappearance was only discovered as a result of the routine visit by Lighthouse Tender HESPERUS, on 26 December 1900. A vessel had passed the Flannan Islands at about midnight on 15 December and on arrival in port had reported that the light was not seen. However, this wasn’t communicated to the Northern Lighthouse Board until the keepers disappearance had been discovered by HESPERUS

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