Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Detour Reef Light Station - 1909

Fog Signal Equipment

Report Sections:

Premises | Lantern and Fixtures | Ventilators and Watchroom | Illuminating Apparatus | Closets and Storerooms

 

Fog Signal General | Fog Signal Equipment | Dwelling | Asst. Keepers Dwellings | Water | Healthfulness

 

Lighthouse Access | Station Boat Info | Tools and Accessories | Light Vessel Specific | Inspection Reports

 

Supplemental Reports

Steam Boiler:

 

Kind:

 

Tube:

 

Dimensions:

 

Length:

 

Diameter:

 

Tube desc:

 

Steam tube diameter:

 

Steam Furnace Kind:

 

Furnace length:

 

Furnace width:

 

Furnace height:

 

Steam heat surface:

 

Steam grate surface:

 

Number of grate bars:

 

Kind of grate bars:

 

Steam fuel:

 

Steam safety valve:

 

Steam max pressure:

 

Steam working pressure:

 

Steam diam of smokestack:

 

Smokestack height:

 

Drum dimension:

 

Steam Drum diameter:

 

Steam covering:

 

Steam boiler condition:

 

Steam boiler built:

 

Where built:

 

Manufacturer:

 

Steam heater:

 

Kind:

 

Size:

 

Heater time affect:

 

Steam Engine kind:

 

Steam Engine revolution:

 

Steam Engine cyl diameter:

 

Steam Engine piston stroke:

 

Steam Engine pipe size:

 

Steam Engine when built:

 

Steam Engine where built:

 

Manufacturer:

 

 

Kingsford compact open bottom marine boiler, Pat. 1894

 

Flue tube.

 

7'9" high

 

6'6.75"

 

4' 9.75"

 

102 tubes, 4' 10"

 

2.5"

 

Internal

 

6' 6.75"

 

4' 3"

 

19"

 

413.88 sq. ft.

 

21.25 sq ft.

 

17

 

Double barrs, 5 ft. long.

 

Bituminous coal.

 

Lever, 2.5" single side outlet.

 

150 lbs.

 

75 lbs.

 

20"

 

Iron stack replaced by 40' brick chimney 20"x20"

 

5' long

 

30"

 

Compound, asbestos, felt, paper, canvas

 

Good.

 

1896

 

Oswego, NY

 

Thomson Kingsford.

 

Yes

 

Gurney, No. 402

 

 

 

 

 

Horizontal

 

 

 

4"

 

6"

 

3/4"

 

1871

 

Detroit, Mich.

 

Detroit Locomotive Works.

Steam Signal

Whistle diameter:

 

Whistle height:

 

Whistle orifice:

 

Whistle tone:

 

Whistle chime:

10"

 

18"

 

2-3/8" to 2-11/16"

 

Single

Whistle Signal