Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Fort Gratiot Light Station - 1912

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:

Open bottom Marine Fire tube.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6' 6.75"

 

4' 9.75"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1900

 

Sheboygan, Wis.

 

Optenberg & Sonneman.

 

yes

 

Gurney #402

 

 

 

15 to 30 min.

 

Horizontal

 

120

 

4"

 

6"

 

 

 

Not known.

Steam Signal

Whistle diameter:

 

Whistle height:

 

Whistle orifice:

 

Whistle tone:

 

Whistle chime:

8"

 

 

 

2 3/8" to 2 11/16"

 

Single

Whistle Signal