Gairloch Museum, Gairloch

Rudh Re lighthouse is situated at Melvaig, near Gairloch, Wester Ross, OS grid NG7396491847. It stands at the remote north west tip of a plump peninsula at the end of a narrow track, with Loch Ewe emerging into the sea to the east. It is one of the ‘Stevenson’ lighthouses, designed by David and completed in 1912. It was decommissioned in 1980. The sundial is now held in the museum at Gairloch. It shows IIII - XII - IIII - VIII, read from the outside, with a noon gap, and divided to 30, 15 and 3 minutes, the quarter and half hours marked witth Arabic numerals 15, 30, 45. There is an anti-clockwise EoT scale in five concentric rings from ’Watch Slower . . . Watch Faster’ in the centre to months ’JAN FEB . . .’ at the outside. At the south of the chapter ring is ’RUDH RE LIGHTHOUSE / N LAT . . / W LONG . . / TO FIND GREENWICH TIME ADD 23 MINUTES / TO THE CORRECTED TIME ’ (the original location was at longitude 5° 48’ west, and the necessary correction is four minutes per degree). In the southerly rim is the maker’s name ’ADIE & WEDDERBURN’.