When a gale drives Henry Winstanley’s ship, Constant, onto the Eddystone Rock in 1695, it’s too much. It’s the second ship Winstanley 1. (lose) to the rock in a year and he decides, 2. (omalla kustannuksellaan), to erect a lighthouse. And 3. begins the story of an 4. (engineer) wonder of the world.
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The Eddystone 5. (sijaitsee) fifteen miles out to sea. 6. (Nousuveden aikaan), just one steep-sided, jagged rock is visible, ten paces wide. 7. (Build) anything in such a place is as ambitious, in the seventeenth century, 8. putting a man on the moon. 9. (Ennen) to state control, no guiding precedents exist on how a lighthouse should look. Yet, 10. (vastoin kaikkia odotuksia), in 1698 a dim candle shines out from a sort of nautical gazebo. The following year Winstanley doubles its height, to over 100 11. (jalka). It’s an immediate triumphant success. For five years no vessel wrecks on the Eddystone. 12. (Delight), Winstanley boasts that his dearest wish is to witness, from his masterpiece, ‘the greatest storm there ever was.’ Fate brutally complies, and he is there on the night of the Great Storm of 1703. 13. (Kaikki, mikä) remains of the tower and Winstanley are a few 14. (twist) lumps of iron. Two days later, the Eddystone 15. (vaatii) its next ship.

The Wrong Kind of Snow (Anthony Woodward & Robert Penn), London 2008