1799: Paul Løwenørn

Paul Løwenørn was appointed Head of the Danish Sea-chart Archives in 1784. He began an extensive mapping of the Danish-Norwegian waters and reports on the need for new navigational aids.

In 1797 he proposes,“as a real Benefit to all Seafarers”, that a tower be built at Lindesnes to make this important landfall a more prominent daymark.

The commission is given to the Scottish architect George Johnstone who built a tower “9 Cubits square, 10 Cubits high and built of a certain type of Scottish stone”.The tower had a coal storage room on the lower floor and a panelled watch room on the upper floor.The fire vat itself was placed up on the roof.