A letter in a bottle – a message lain on the lighthouse for 132 years – Tsikavynky
The note was left by engineers who installed a new lantern on the lighthouse, which is still working.
Ross Russell, an engineer with the North Sea Lighthouse Council, discovered a 132-year-old letter bottle deep in the wall of Corswall Lighthouse in southern Scotland. He called the find a “once in a lifetime” event.
The BBC writes about it.
The letter, written in pen and ink and dated 1892, lists the names of the lighthouse keepers as well as the engineers who installed a new type of lighting on the 30-meter tower of the lighthouse that summer. A bottle with a diameter of 20 cm was discovered during the inspection of the lighthouse in a deep niche hidden behind a closet.
The engineering team got the bottle out of the hiding place with the help of improvised means, since it was impossible to reach it by hand. However, the honor of opening the bottle and extracting the message was entrusted to the current lighthouse keeper, Barry Miller, whose arrival…
