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:

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Distance and direction:

Water supply:

Reached from Lighthouse:

Desc of Fog signal building:

Pressure and recording gauge:

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Scotch Cap Light Station - 1920

Fog Signal General

Diaphone, Type "F" operated by compressed air & a 10" whistle for emergency use.

10 minutes

0 minutes

4 sec. blast, 56 sec. silent.

3 engines & air compressors, 2 air tanks. Diaphone & whistle apparatus are each separately complete.

Special, furnished by Diaphone Signal Co.

60 lbs.

75'

Vertical.

In same building as light.

Water piped from sparing on hill, constant flow; cistern back of fog signal for circulating purposes is needed.

By a trail.

1 story, octagonal frame building heated by hot water system.

2 Crosby Gauge Co. 1 recording gauge, American Steam Gauge Co.

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