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
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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