Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Pigeon Point Light Station

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

 

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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:

1 boiler pump 2.5 No. 21223, Geo. F. Blake, Maker, Boston & NY

 

horizontal

 

flue tube

 

12'

 

42"

 

 

 

41 tubes - 12'

 

3"

 

brick

 

4'

 

4'

 

South furnace - 18"; North furnace - 24"

 

430 sq. ft.

 

16 sq. ft.

 

16

 

4', wood burning bars

 

wood

 

2.5" locomotive pop valve

 

175 lbs

 

60 lbs

 

21.5"

 

38'

 

North 48" long; South 55" long

 

North 28"; South 30"

 

none

 

South boiler good, North boiler fair condition

 

South 1905; North 1887

 

South - Erie, PA; North - San Francisco, CA

 

South - Pa Boiler Works; North - Moynihan & Aiken

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

horizontal

 

North 102 rpm; South 63 rpm

 

North - 4"; South - 4"

 

North - 9"; South - 6"

 

3/4"

 

no name or date

Steam Signal

Whistle diameter:

 

Whistle height:

 

Whistle orifice:

 

Whistle tone:

 

Whistle chime:

North - 12"; South - 10"

 

North - 30"; South - 27"

 

North - 2 11/16"; South - 3"

Whistle Signal