He ran into the wind and away from the flames, then stood with other survivors and watched as the wreckage burnt down to its steel skeleton.

It was a steel skeleton frame lighthouse, as opposed to the brick lighthouses usually associated with the state.

Extending upwards from the table are quadropod structures, which support smaller beams which form the shell of the steel skeleton.

In the middle of the 20th century, the wood towers were replaced by steel skeleton towers.

It was thus given a strong steel skeleton, which would stand the building in very good stead some three decades after its completion.