Fog Signal General

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Timing device:

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

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Squaw Island Light Station

Fog Signal General

10" steam whistle, operated by locomotive steam boilers and controlled by upright
engines.

40 minutes

5 sec blast, 20 sec silent, 5 sec blast, 40 sec silent.

Engines, boilers & whistles

Cams on cog wheel of engine

75%

about 30'

all points of compass.

N'ly about 170' from lighthouse. Coast guide in foggy weather.

170' N'ly.

from dug well.

By concrete walk to tram on track, thence by walk on ties of track.

Red brick, ordinary frame construction roof covered with corrugated iron.
Size 22' x 40'

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