Fog Signal General

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Timing device:

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

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St. George Reef Light Station

Fog Signal General

12" steam whistle

About 50 minutes when boiler is cold.

1st complete fog signal furnished by Moynihan-Aitken, San Francisco.

1891 (new boilers & steam drums installed 1897)

5 sec blast every 75 sec.

12" steam whistle, boilers, engines, steam pumps & plunger pump.

70 & 75 lbs

74'

(whistles)

dangerous reef of submerged & exposed rock.

Within pier of main structure

cistern below floor in pier

whole signal apparatus within pier

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