Fog Signal General

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Timing device:

If whistle, siren or trumpet, Pressure at which blown:

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South Fox Island Light Station

Fog Signal General

10" steam whistle. 2 Marine, open bottom pattern steam boilers

about 1 hour

Dayton, OH., Miami Valley Boiler Co.

1895

Blast 3 sec., silent intervals of 17 sec.

All except whistle & smokestack.

Cam in clockwork. Crosby automatic signal.

90#

53' 3"

SW from lighthouse. General warning to mariners in dangerous channels, Special guide thru passage between S Fox & Manitou Island.

SW 400'

supplied by well 4' x 4' inside, 6' x 6' outside.

Plank walk

Frame building 22' x 40' - brick foundation corrugated iron sides & roof, painted red.

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