Fog Signal General

Fog Signal Kind:

Time to start:

How long will pressure last:

Manufacturer:

Year of Manufacture:

Characteristic:

Duplication:

Timing device:

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

Height above water:

Compass direction:

Location:

Distance and direction:

Water supply:

Reached from Lighthouse:

Desc of Fog signal building:

Pressure and recording gauge:

Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Grand Traverse Bay Light Station - 1909

Fog Signal General

10" steam whistle, Marine boilers

55 minutes

Geo. F. Motter & Sons, York, PA, under contract with Ellicott Co., Balto, MD

1899

3 sec blast, 12 sec silent, 6 sec blast, 24 sec silent

all except smokestack, which is of brick & part of fog signal building.

Cams on worm wheel on engine

85 #

36' 11"

Guide to Grand Traverse Bay & to passage between Manitous & Mainland.

95' S 110' W

Well, 20' W at building.

By 2' plank walk from dwelling

Ext. walls, buff pressed brick. Roof laid with metallic shingles. Painted red. Walls, brick faced. Partitions & ceiling covered with metal.

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