Revolving Machinery:
Standby and Desc:
Chariot float or balls:
Chariot desc:
Length of drop tube:
Clock Weight:
Length of winding time:
Drive During Rewind:
Machinery protection:
Regulated:
Lens Protection:
How color produced:
Red sectors desc:
Where color attached:
Form of colored glass:
Lamp desc:
Type of illuminant:
Candle Power:
Num spare lamps:
Num spare burners:
Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database
St. George Reef Light Station
Illuminating Apparatus page 2 of 2
revolving
chariot
8 steel wheels size 3 1/8" tapering to 3.5" x 1 1/8" revolves on beveled tracks; 8 small wheels 2" x 1/2" bearing on center drum to keep larger wheels in place on track.
28'
6 hours
enclosed by glass doors
By governor, adjusted by weight by screwing the ball up or down; on end of arms is a piece of cork rubbing on metal basin. Inside balls is a loose weight on small piston to hold cork & move up & down to check speed of clockwork.
By red shades outside the lens fitted in frames with hinges.
1st order US mineral oil lamp, 5 wicks
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3
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Supplemental Reports
Revolving cord:
Size of Clock Cord:
Length of Clock Cord:
How Led:
Diameter and length of clock drum:
wire cord
thru watchroom floor & ceiling of a dwelling room to 1 corner into shaft or tube built in wall for this purpose.
Clock Cord Description
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