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■580 ix. shipping and navigation.
Table 124. Pilotage and Lighthouses in 1871 to 1911.
Pilotings Number Pilotage Pilot Service [-Casualties-] {+Casual- ties+} at sea2 At the end of the period
Annually Dues Kronor [-Expenditure1-] {+Expen- diture1+} Kronor Pilot
Stations Lighthouse Stations Pilot Staffs [-Lighthouse-] {+Light- house+} Staff Value of Materiel * Kronor
1871—80 . . 1881—90 . . 1891—00 . . 1901—05 . . 1906-10 . . 45 080 28 639 38 620 44 859 46 062 674 627 617 905 856 216 1 048 507 1 183 240 1 032 201 1337 350 1 583 033 1 815 620 1 875 423 183 208 216 235 212 144 135 131 124 117 85 241 312 320 331 856 780 939 880 841 235 361 414 417 465 6 133 491 8 429 081 10 310 218 11195 172 11 973 899
1911 .... 47 393 1 258 720 1 796 062 203 117 347 842 448 12 059 595
1 Inclusive of expenses for life-saving. — 2 On the coasts of Sweden. — 3 Subordinate
officers and servants, inclusive of those servants (32 in 1911) who belong both to the pilot
and the lighthouse service. — 4 Exclusive of the value of the boats belonging to the
members of the staif personally.
lighthouse personnel are on the permanent establishment and are in
receipt of fixed salaries.
The light-ships on the East coast of Sweden are stationed out early in
the spring as the drift ice allows; they are withdrawn as soon as there is
serious risk of their becoming ice-bound. On the South and West coast
of Sweden, on the other hand, the lightships are sometimes allowed to
remain moored at their stations the whole year round. — The value of the
22 lightships was estimated in 1911 at 2 215 879 kronor.
The personnel at the Life Saving Stations in 1911 numbered 165
hands, besides 19 belonging, properly speaking, to the pilot and
lighthouse services. They are remunerated for each salvage operation.
The whole entire pilot service is supported solely out of the "lighthouse and
beacon dues" (fyr- och båkmedlen), that is, the dues paid by ships leaving the
harbours for foreign ports, or entering them from abroad. These dues at
present amount to 25 ore for every ton and for certain voyages according to the
tonnage certificate (mcitbrev). In 1911 they yielded the total sum of 1 929 181
kronor.
The waterways in which official pilotage is prescribed are 2 200 in number,
and the sea-marks total 4 759. — The number of vessels that foundered in
1911 with a Government pilot on board was 28, but only in five cases was the
pilot sentenced by the maritime court as responsible for the accident. — As to
the development of the pilot and lighthouse services since 1871, data are
furnished by Table 124.
In the 16 life-saving stations in Sweden 7 lives were saved in 1911 and from
the very start altogether 1 861 lives.
In addition to the State life-saving stations above referred to, a few other such
stations have been established with the aid of voluntary contributions by a
private society for the saving of lives at sea. However, since 1907, when it was
started, that Society, for all its rather expensive paraphernalia, has only succeeded
in saving three lives.
The Pilot Service supports entirely or partially no less than 27 schools in
out-of-the-way stations, and in these schools instruction has been imparted to
222 children (1911).
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