I wonder if someone can tell me ?

[scaraben]

Some time ago there was a documentary on TV about a rock station lighthouse mystery. When the Pole star ( Lighthouse vessel ) came to releive the lightkeepers they found to their amazement that all the keepers had vanished and the light was unmanned. What lighthouse was it ????

[corgiman]

is this it
http://heritage.scotsman.com/diagrams.cfm?cid=1&id=39672005

[changilass]

FLANNAN ISLE
by: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
HOUGH three men dwell on Flannan Isle
To keep the lamp alight,
As we steer'd under the lee, we caught
No glimmer through the night!

A passing ship at dawn had brought
The news; and quickly we set sail,
To find out what strange thing might all
The keepers of the deep-sea light.

The winter day broke blue and bright,
With glancing sun and glancing spray,
As o'er the swell our boat made way,
As gallant as a gull in flight.

But, as we near'd the lonely Isle;
And look'd up at the naked height;
And saw the lighthouse towering white,
With blinded lantern, that all night
Had never shot a spark
Of comfort through the dark,
So ghastly in the cold sunlight
It seem'd, that we were struck the while
With wonder all too dread for words.

And, as into the tiny creek
We stole beneath the hanging crag,
We saw three queer, black, ugly birds--
Too big, by far, in my belief,
For guillemot or shag--
Like seamen sitting bold upright
Upon a half-tide reef:
But, as we near'd, they plunged from sight,
Without a sound, or spurt of white.

And still too mazed to speak,
We landed; and made fast the boat;
And climb'd the track in single file,
Each wishing he was safe afloat,
On any sea, however far,
So it be far from Flannan Isle:
And still we seem'd to climb, and climb,
As though we'd lost all count of time,
And so must climb for evermore.
Yet, all too soon, we reached the door--
The black, sun-blister'd lighthouse door,
That gaped for us ajar.

[scaraben]

Thank you BOTH very much for that information it has been most helpful. Maun >>> This caithness.org site is wonderful ! Somebody always comes to your aid & this time its you two !! Thank you again.