Fog Signal General

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Cape St. Elias Light Station

Fog Signal General

1st class air siren 6"

12 mm

1 minute - 2 blasts

4 sec blast, 4 sec silent, 4 sec blast, 48 sec silent

All parts, except preheater & muffler.

Crosby automatic

siren 45#

57'

C.L. 208 degrees 45' (S 28 degrees 45' W)

Lighthouse attached at SW corner. Located N'ly, 2.5 miles from SE Rock, farthest outlying danger.

attached

Cisterns in storage building, both rain & spring water.

attached

Reinforced concrete construction, walls lined with terra cotta tile plastered, windows & doors of ingot iron hollow metal construction, hip roof on steel trusses, sheathed & shingled with asbestos slates, diagonal method. Floors, concrete.

Pressure gauge on HP receiver; Recording gauge on LP

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