 He was a Scottish engineer who moved to Chile and eventually became the head of the Chilean Maritime Signaling Service.As of 2013, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) lists 650 lighthouses in Chile and according to "Faros de Chile" 18 of them were inhabited in 2009.There are no lightvessels in Chile, but 2 shipwrecks are used as a basis for lighthouses