Fog Signal General

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Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Cape Arago Light Station - 1910

Fog Signal General

First-class new style 6" automatic siren.

10 minutes.

No storage.

At Thompkinsville

1909

Blast: 5 sec; Silent: 12 sec; Blast: 3 sec; Silent: 40 sec.

All parts.

Governed by speed of engines.

73'

Nearly North

In same structure as lighthouse. Marks reefs off entrance & entrance to Coos Bay..

Attached to lighthouse.

Rainwater from roof.

In same building.

Frame one-story building at base of tower with engine room, workroom & vestibule tower rising from S'ly face. Foundation concrete, walls & roof shingled.

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