Fog Signal General

Fog Signal Kind:

Time to start:

How long will pressure last:

Manufacturer:

Year of Manufacture:

Characteristic:

Duplication:

Timing device:

If whistle, siren or trumpet, Pressure at which blown:

Height above water:

Compass direction:

Location:

Distance and direction:

Water supply:

Reached from Lighthouse:

Desc of Fog signal building:

Pressure and recording gauge:

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Cape Sarichef Light Station - 1920

Fog Signal General

1st class automatic siren.

8 min.

3 sec blast, 5 sec silent, 3 sec blast, 49 sec silent

Engines, compressors, air tanks, sirens, horns, & tripping gear.

Crosby automatic tripping gear

siren - 60 lbs

110'

282 degrees

In same building as light.

Rain water from roof of tower drained into underground cistern.

Just back of fog-signal building.

1-story, octagonal; frame building on concrete foundation. Heater is hot water, boiler, Little Giant No. 20, made by Pierce, Butler & Pierce Mfg. Co., Syracuse, NY. Grate 18" dia.; shaker ring, 14.5"

2 pressure gauges. Rand Drill Co., Recording gauge American Steam Gauge Co., Boston.

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