Longships

When a man is stationed at a lighthouse like the Longships, which is a little distance out on a rock, he may be a couple of months without being relieved.

Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall

It can thus be distinguished from the larger light of the Longships, which is a single light of much greater power.

The Three Admirals William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Lucky Leif & the Longships gets the odd play around here, but now I shall have to dig up more.

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Not long before sunset I walked out across the gorse and bracken of Mayon Cliff on to the grassy headland and looked westwards, past the Longships lighthouse, a mile and a half out on its rocky reef, though it looks much closer.

Country diary: Land's End, Cornwall John Vallins 2010

Longships lying in the harbours like arrows jammed in a quiver.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

The grim, unlovely little hotel at Land's End sheltered us the night before the commencement of our journey north, and the Longships

The Automobilist Abroad

Straight in front of us the Longships lighthouse made a pillar of black marble against the huge red disc of the setting sun.

The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster

Away to the left, where, far out to sea, the Longships stuck a white finger out of the foam, a sudden squall might come up, obliterating lighthouse, headlands, all the sea to the cliff's foot, with its purple smother.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

Rather more than a mile out is a cluster of islets, on one of which, Carn Brâs, stands the Longships lighthouse, built in 1883 to replace one that had been privately erected; it has an occulting light of over seven hundred candle-power, visible at 16 miles.

The Cornwall Coast

When the dusk of nightfall has veiled the defacements and deformities, he can stay on this ultimate headland alone with the immemorial rocks, the whispering wind, the brooding sea, greeted by the lights of the Wolf and the Longships, with a far twinkle from the

The Cornwall Coast