Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

St. George Reef 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:

 

 

horizontal return tube - shell of boiler 5/16" steel - heads 3/8" thick

 

Flue tube

 

 

 

12'

 

42"

 

41 - 12' 1/4"

 

3"

 

fire box

 

4'

 

4'

 

20"

 

about 433 sq. ft.

 

16 sq. ft.

 

18 double bars in each furnace, or boiler

 

cast iron, double, 4' l x 2 5/8" w; 4" deep at center

 

bituminous

 

2.5" with composition valve - seat & stone.

 

175 lbs, cold water pressure

 

70 lbs

 

1 sec. of each smokestack 9' long, 20" dia. joins into 24" x 31" horizontal near ceiling of engine room, extend in an elbow thru pier.

 

stack 30' high

 

4'

 

30" shell 1/4" heads 3/8"

 

felting & asbestos

 

Shell of boilers, good; tubes burst - retubed soon

 

1897 (new boiler)

 

not known

 

not known

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

90 pound

 

upright

 

100 rpm

 

4"

 

10.5"

 

3/4"

 

1885

 

not known

 

not known

Steam Signal

Whistle diameter:

 

Whistle height:

 

Whistle orifice:

 

Whistle tone:

 

Whistle chime:

12"

 

18"

 

3 1/4"

 

single

Whistle Signal