Kind of Apparatus:
Intensity in Candles:
Name of Maker:
Year Made:
Marks and Number:
Order of Apparatus:
Inside Diameter:
Light Characteristic:
Time of revolution:
Flash interval:
Duration of flash:
Arc of each fixed part:
Number of panels:
Number of flash panels:
Arc of each:
Number of elements in
central drum:
Number of prisms above
central drum:
Number of prisms below
central drum:
Does Apparatus revolve?:
Is there a Revolving Belt:
Revolving panels:
How is flash produced:
Num of Vertical elements panel:
Fixed lens covered:
Pedestal:
Service Table:
Draft Tube description:
Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database
Cape Charles Light Station - 1909
Illuminating Apparatus page 1 of 2
F. Barbier & Co. Paris, France.
1893
BF/99
1st order.
6 feet.
Flashing white.
1 minute.
About 2 seconds.
About 1 second.
16
9
19, 17 prisms in each panel of dark side.
18
7
Yes
Iron.
None.
Damper tube enters connecting tube, which is made fast to crown piece of lens. End of connecting tube, diamater 4", enters ordinary stove pipe, which is wired in position to crown piece of lantern.
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