Libby Island (Maine)

Historical Light List Characteristics

1839 F W. W15. USLHE Light List (US): 10
1849
1858 F W. W13. LHB Light List (US): 5
1860 LHB Light List (US): 3
1865-1866 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 3
1868
1870 F W. W12. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 4
1878-1879 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 5
1886
1888 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 6
1893 F W. W151/4. LHB Light List (Atlantic): 7
1898-1899
1905
1908
1915 F W. W15. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 7
1917 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 8
1920
1927
1931
1935 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 9
1940 USCG Light List (Atlantic): 11
1943 F W. W13. USCG Light List (Atlantic): 15
1945
1946-1947 F W. W15.
1950-1952
1953-1955 USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 96
1957
1959-1960 USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 97
1961 F W. W15. Obscured 208°-220°(12°). USCG Light List - Vol. I: 97
1963-1965
1966 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 206
1969-1972
1973-1974 F W. W16. Obscured 208°-220°(12°).
1975-1979 Fl(2) W 20s. W25. Obscured 208°-220°(12°).
1982
1987 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1295
1990-1992 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1090
1993-1996 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1120
2004 Fl(2) W 20s. W18.

Historical Light List Optics and Structures

1839 10 Lamps / 15" Refl. 30 60 N/A USLHE Light List (US): 10
1849 12 Lamps / 16" Refl.
1858 4th 35 52 LHB Light List (US): 5
1860 LHB Light List (US): 3
1865 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 3
1866
1868
1870 Tower is granite, detached from keeper's dwelling, and about 250 feet distant from the later, which is a story and a half house, painted brown. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 4
1878-1879 Tower of granite, natural color, standing about south of dwelling. Dwelling a one and a half story house, painted brown. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 5
1886 Gray- granite tower, detached from white dwelling. Fog-signal house on S. point of island.
1888 Gray granite tower, detached from white dwelling. Fog-signal house on S. point of island. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 6
1893 36 91 LHB Light List (Atlantic): 7
1898
1899 Conical gray granite tower, detached from white dwelling and rain shed. White fog-signal house on S. point of island, and a red brick oil house about 100 feet N. of tower.
1905 White, conical, granite tower, black lantern; rain shed and red-brick oilhouse about 100 feet, and white dwelling 225 feet northerly from the light-tower. White fog-signal house on southerly point of island.
1908 White, conical, granite tower, black lantern; rainshed and red-brick oilhouse about 100 feet and white dwelling 225 feet N'ly from the light-tower; white fog-signal house on S'ly point of island.
1915 N/A 40 White; conical, granite tower. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 7
1917 42 White conical granite tower. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 8
1920
1927
1931 4 iov White granite conical tower.
1935 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 9
1940 USCG Light List (Atlantic): 11
1943 USCG Light List (Atlantic): 15
1945-1947
1950-1952 4 e
1953-1955 N/A USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 96
1957
1959-1960 USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 97
1961 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 97
1963-1965
1966 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 206
1969-1979 Granite conical tower.
1982
1987 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1295
1990-1992 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1090
1993-1996 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1120
2004

Historical Light List Audible Fog Signals

1858 Fog-bell None LHB Light List (US): 5
1860 LHB Light List (US): 3
1865-1866 Fog-bell struck by machinery. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 3
1868
1870 A bell struck by machinery. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 4
1878-1879 LHB Light List (All Coasts): 5
1886 3d-class Daboll trumpet; blasts 7 sec., intervals 40 sec. If Daboll trumpet be disabled, a bell will be struck by machinery every 10 seconds.
1888 3d-class Daboll trumpet; blasts 7 sec, intervals 40 sec. If Daboll trumpet be disabled, a bell will be struck by hand. LHB Light List (All Coasts): 6
1893 10-inch steam whistle; blasts 4 sec., alternate silent intervals of 4 sec. and 18 sec. None LHB Light List (Atlantic): 7
1898 10-inch steam whistle; blasts 2 sec., silent intervals 13 sec.
1899 10-inch steam whistle; blasts 5 sec., silent intervals 25 sec.
1905 10-inch steam whistle; blasts 2 sec., silent intervals 13 sec. If whistle be disabled a bell will be rung by hand.
1908
1915 10-inch steam whistle; blast 2 sec., silent 13 sec. Bell (hand) if whistle is disabled. USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 7
1917 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 8
1920
1927 Air diaphone; blast 2 sec., silent 13 sec. Bell (1,300-lb.) if whistle is disabled.
1931 DIAPHONE, air; blast 2 sec., silent 13 sec. Bell if diaphone disabled.
1935 USLHS Light List (Atlantic): 9
1940 USCG Light List (Atlantic): 11
1943 USCG Light List (Atlantic): 15
1945-1947
1950-1952
1953-1955 DIAPHONE: 1 blast ev 15s (2sbl). Bell, hand, gp of 2 strokes ev 30s, if diaphone is disabled. USCG Light List - Vol. I-VI: 96
1957
1959-1960 USCG Light List - Vol. I-V: 97
1961 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 97
1963
1964-1965 None
1966 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 206
1969-1972 HORN, diaphragm; 1 blast ev 15s (2sbl).
1973-1975 HORN, 1 blast ev 15s (2sbl).
1976-1979 HORN: 1 blast ev 15s (2sbl).
1982 HORN: 1 blast ev 15s (2s bl).
1987 HORN: 1 blast ev 15s (2s bl). USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1295
1990-1992 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1090
1993-1996 USCG Light List - Vol. I: 1120
2004 HORN: 1 blast ev 15s (2s bl).
1822 - Present