Inside this issue:

• Good news from Sumburgh Head – Fresnel lens relit
• The Executive Committee in action – Jill Murphy
• A light in the Dales
• Black days at Blackrock – Richard Cummins and Tommy Murphy (former keepers)
• Lightvessel 50: A unique ship – Ian Hogarth and Lester Sher
• Get in on, bang a gong – fog gongs – Cal Shotspit
• The minor lighthouses of Victoria – Part Two – Lin Richards
• The lighthouses of Stockholm’s archipelago – Richard Cummins
• Parson Darby – saint of sinner? – Wyatt Clifse
• The abandoned lighthouses of Nova Scotia – Chris Mills
• Female lighthouse keepers – Part One – Christopher Nicholson
• Mingo and the first Harwich lighthouses – Harry Chai
• Catering on a tower rock – Anthony Mills
• A rabbit yarn
• Lightvessels on the Medway – Part One – Joy Tubby
• Skerryvore in a new light – models
• The great storm of 1703
• Obituary: Alan Nicholas (1938-2025)
• St Martin’s goes solar – Aaron Carpenter
• Events update
• Quirks from Queensland – Julie Taylor
• The Chapman Lighthouse – Pete Goulding
• William Duncan Lines – portrait of a Scottish lightkeeper
• Lighting the past – Skellig Michael, Ships Carpenters, St Helen’s lighthouse, Isle of Wight
• Front cover: Eilean Glas, Outer Hebrides – photo by Siegfried Makedanz
• Back cover: LV50 as she would have been on the Seven Stones Reef in 1879