A reinforced concrete helipad was constructed at the same time to enable maintenance visits in heavy weather. On our arrival there this afternoon no sign of life was to be seen on the Island. Lay tumbled on the floor. [1] They returned to San Francisco in the spring of 1850 with the coastal survey of northern California beginning on 1850-04-03 and continued up to the mouth of the Columbia River On August 1, 1850, while still in Oregon, McArthur purchased a 1/16 interest in Mare Island for $468.50[2] then returned to San Francisco later that month to prepare charts and write reports. Why had one of the men left the lighthouse without taking his coat, especially since this was December in the Outer Hebridies? We only saw a table spread were kept, and which was secured in a crevice in the rock about 110 ft (34 m) above sea level, and that an extra large sea had rushed up the face of the rock, had gone above them, and coming down with immense force, had swept them completely away. Create a free family tree for yourself or for William McArthur and we’ll search for valuable new information for you. The final log entry was made on the 15th December. Muirhead immediately noticed that the last few days of entries were unusual. For at the table head a chair [4] I myself have been much closer when I raced the Sound of Islay in a speed boat together with Arra Fletcher. Love speculates that MacArthur probably tried to warn or help his colleagues and was swept away too. Harvey quickly sent back a telegram to the mainland, which in turn was forwarded to the Northern Lighthouse Board Headquarters in Edinburgh. The scenery is beautiful and in some places and some points of view the grandest that the eye ever beheld. I have left Moore, MacDonald, Buoymaster and two Seamen on the island to keep the light burning until you make other arrangements. ", "The mysterious disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers", "Northern Lighthouse Board - Report by Superintendent", "When Three isn't a Crowd: The Mystery of Eilean Mor – ASPire", "The Mystery Of The Flannan Isle Lighthouse (Demo 1968)", "Gerard Butler Stars in New Trailer for 'The Vanishing' Based on Real-Life Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery - Horror News Network - The Horror News You Need! Back aboard his ship, Captain Harvey sent a telegram back to the Northern Lighthouse Board Headquarters in Edinburgh. On October 27, 1848 A.D. Bache, Superintendent U.S. Coast Survey, instructed him to go to San Francisco, California to begin "the survey of the Western Coast of the United States."[1]. Over the following decades, subsequent lighthouse keepers at Eilean Mor have reported strange voices in the wind, calling out the names of the three dead men.