Sounding The Sumburgh Head Foghorn The Last Working Foghorn in Scotland.

This is the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse & Foghorn, which was built in 1905 and recently restored.

Now there may not be anything special about the Samburg Head Foghorn, but the people who restored it think it may be the last working Foghorn in Scotland.

The foghorn is located on the southern tip of the Mainland of Shetland in the UK. which is a remote island located between Iceland, Norway & united kingdom, or just north of Scotland.

To sound the foghorn, the diesel engines are started up and air is compressed into large reservoir tanks at 25 PSI

Then a valve is unlocked, and turned to allow the air access to the horn, but before the horn can be used, a worker needs to go up a spiral stair case to the horn room and activate it from there.

There are 3 x 1951Kelvin K-Series Diesel 44hp Engines. The engines power the Alley and MacLellan compressors, which in turn, power the foghorn.

Every foghorn has it’s own unique sounding pattern, that differs from other foghorn signals in the area, Sumburgh's horn blows for one 7 second blast every 90 seconds. This allowed ship captains in the area to know which horn is warning them.

The Foghorn was last sounded in 1987, but will sound now again on special occasions.

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► WildPlacePictures Youtube Channel -    / @wildplacepictures  

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► Shetland Amenity Trust Website - https://www.sumburghhead.com

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