Who is the lighthouse keeper narrator of Lovecraft's 'The White Ship'?

The lighthouse keeper narrator of Lovecraft’s “The White Ship” is Basil Elton.

Elton tends a lonely lighthouse and experiences the story’s central fantasy when a mystical white ship appears under the full moon. He walks across a bridge of moonlight, boards the vessel with a bearded pilot, and journeys through a chain of dreamlike islands while searching for the legendary land of Cathuria.

The voyage ends at the edge of the world, where the ship plunges into the abyss. Elton awakens beside his lighthouse and discovers that the light has gone out, causing a real shipwreck. The dream’s ominous details are reinforced when he later finds a dead azure bird and a piece of pure white wood.

The story first appeared in The United Amateur in November 1919 and later in Weird Tales. Its imaginative voyage was influenced by Lord Dunsany’s “Idle Days on the Yann.” Basil Elton is not Thomas Olney, who is the philosopher in “The Strange High House in the Mist.”