Report for Robinson Point (Washington) - 1910
General |
District: | 13th |
Inspector: | Maj. J. F. McIndoe, Corps of Engineers |
Location: | On E'ly extremity of Robinson Point, E'ly point of Maury Island, WA. |
Date of Report: | 02/28/1910 |
Latitude: | 47° 23' 20" |
Longitude: | 122° 22' 20" |
Premises |
Site: | Purchased |
Date of Reservation: | |
Date of Deed: | 01/29/1884 |
Date of Permission: | |
Date of Lease: | |
Area of the Entire Site: | 23.61 acres |
Area Inclosed: | |
Character of Soil: | Clay with a few inches of vegetable matter |
Distance of tower from Nearest High-Water Mark: | 10' |
Inclosures to Premises / Type of Fence: | Boundary fence, fence around garden, fence around dwelling & poultry yard. |
Wharf or Landing on Premises: | Landing made on beach |
Road to Land or Wharf Chararacter of and Distance: | No road required |
Means to Reach Light Station: | By boat, Tacoma, WA or Seattle, WA. |
Distance to Nearest Road: | Portage, WA., 4 miles by wagon road. |
Distance to Post Office: | 1/4 mile Maury, WA. |
Distance to Village: | Tacoma, 9 miles. |
Facilities for Public Conveyance: | Landing is made by launch carrying US Mail, at station & other steamers will land passengers if small boat from station comes off. |
Facilities for Private Conveyance: | Launch may be hired in Tacoma, WA. |
Means Used for Support of Lantern: | Skeleton tower carrying lantern |
Number of Separate Lights: | 1 |
First Built or Established: | 1885 |
Last Rebuilt, Repaired, or Renovated: | 1907 |
Condition at This Date: | Fair |
Shape of Tower in Plan: | Square |
Form of Tower: | Pyramidal |
Height from Base to Ventilator Ball: | |
Height of Focal Plane Above Mean High Water: | 25' |
Background of Lighthouse as Seen from Sea: | Dark green timbered bluff |
Color of Tower: | White |
Color of Tower/ How Produced: | Painted |
Tower Connection: | Detached |
Object of Navigation: | For local navigation, turning point. |
Building Materials: | Wood, skeleton tower. |
General Description: | |
Wall Thickness at Base: | |
Wall Thickness at Parapet: | |
Diameter at Base: | 11' square |
Diameter at Parapet: | 7' |
Kind of Stairway and Steps: | Wooden |
Number of Landings: | 3 |
Size of Glass: | |
Number of Windows and Size of Sash: | |
Number of Doors: | None |
Kind of Foundation and Depth Below Surface: | Gravel, sills set on surface anchored to posts set in ground. |
Character of Soil Surrounding the Lighthouse: | Beach gravel |
Soil Susceptibility: | Swamp in rear covered with grass & small brush |
Miscellaneous Remarks: | Tower stands at extremity of point surrounded by water on 3 sides at high tide. |
Lantern and Fixtures |
Order of Lantern: | Glass shelter for lens lantern |
Shape of Lantern: | Square |
Diameter to Glass: | 22" square |
Diameter in the Clear: | |
Number of Sides: | 4 |
Type of Bars: | Vertical |
Thickness of Bars: | |
Height Glazed: | 25" |
Number of Plates in Height: | One |
Number of Plates Each Side: | One |
Thickness of Plates: | 1/4" |
Size of Plates: | 21" x 26" |
Number of Storm Panes: | None |
Unglazed Side of Lantern: | |
What Bearings: | |
Construction Material Lantern: | Wooden frame, galvanized roof, wooden floor. |
Construction Material Roof / Cowl: | Galvanized iron |
Ventilator / Cowl: | Galvanized iron hood; no ball. |
Lightning Spindle: | None |
Description of Lightning Rod: | |
Balustrade: | Wooden rail |
Lantern Doors: | Set in with cleats |
Floor of Lantern: | Wood |
Watchroom Doors: | None |
Parapet Diameter: | 6' 8" square |
Watchroom |
How is Watchroom Fitted: | None. Watch kept in dwelling or in Fog signal bldg. |
How is Relief Called: | |
Where is Call System Led: |
Illuminating Apparatus |
Kind of Apparatus: | |
Intensity in Candles: | |
Name of Maker: | |
Year Made: | |
Marks and Number: | |
Order of Apparatus: | Lens lantern (old style) |
Inside Diameter: | 11 3/4" |
Light Characteristic: | Fixed red |
Time of Revolution: | |
Flash Interval: | |
Duration of Flash: | |
Arc of Each Fixed Part: | |
Number of Panels: | 4 |
Number of Flash Panels: | |
Arc of Each: | |
Number of Elements in Central Drum: | 7 |
Number of Prisms Above Center Drum: | None |
Number of Prisms Below Center Drum: | None |
Does Apparatus Revolve?: | False |
Is There a Revolving Belt?: | False |
Revolving Panels: | |
How Flash is Produced: | |
Number of Vertical Elements Panel: | |
Fixed Lens Covered: | |
Pedestal: | None |
Service Table: | |
Draft Tube Description: | |
Revolving Machinery: | |
Standby and Description: | |
Chariot Float or Balls: | |
Chariot Description: | |
Length of Drop Tube: | |
Clock Weight: | |
Length of Winding Time: | |
Drive During Rewind: | |
Machinery Protection: | |
Regulated: | |
Lens Protection: | |
How Color is Produced: | By ruby chimneys |
Red Sectors Description: | None |
Where Color Attached: | Ruby chimney |
Form of Colored Glass: | Ruby chimney (lens lantern 1 day) |
Lamp Description: | Lens lantern, Funck Heap, 1 day |
Type of Illuminant: | |
Number of Spare Lamps: | 2 (1 lantern) |
Number of Spare Burners: | 1 |
Candle Power: |
Vapor Oil Lamp |
Number of Wicks or Mantels: | |
Diameter of Outside Wick: | 1 1/4" |
Diameter of Mantel: | |
Diameter of Circum Circle: |
Closets and Store Rooms |
Tower Closet Use: | None |
Oil House Description: | Oil stored in rain sheds on wooden platform off ground. |
Oil House Inside Dimension: | |
Oil House Construction Material: | |
Oil House Capacity: | |
Other (Describe): | No closets except in dwellings & storeroom in rear of fog signal room fitted with shelves. |
Suitability: | Dry & suitable. |
Fog Signal General |
Fog Signal Kind: | 12" steam whistle with Economic Boiler No. 6 |
Time to Start: | 45 minutes |
How Long Will Pressure Last: | |
Manufacturer: | Old style whistle & engine |
Year of Manufacture: | No date |
Characteristic: | 6 sec blast, 54 sec silent |
Duplication: | None |
Timing Device: | Fly ball governor No. 1, Gardner Governor Co., Quincy, Il. |
If whistle, siren, or trumpet, Pressure at Which Blown: | 55 lbs |
Height Above Water: | About 18' |
Compass Direction: | |
Location: | Marks extremity of Robinson Point & forms turning point for vessels navigating Puget Sound. |
Distance and Direction: | 34' SW |
Water Supply: | From rainsheds 60' x 40' with 2 cisterns |
Reached from Lighthouse: | By plank walk |
Description of Fog Signal Building: | 1 story frame structure with coal shed in form of an ell, all on brick piers. |
Pressure And Recording Gauge: |
Steam Signal |
Steam Boiler: | Economic boiler No. 6 Erie City Iron Works No. 36 |
Kind: | Return tubular |
Tube: | Flue tube |
Dimensions: | |
Length: | 11.5' over all |
Diameter: | 36" |
Tube Description: | 18 - 4" tubes - 49" long; 30 - 3" tubes 96" long. |
Steam Tube Diameter: | 3" & 4" |
Steam Furnace Kind: | Flue box |
Furnace Length: | 42" |
Furnace Width: | 36" |
Furnace Height: | 24" |
Steam Heat Surface: | 297.20 sq. ft. |
Steam Grate Surface: | 10.5 sq. ft. |
Number of Grate Bars: | 18 |
Kind of Grate Bars: | Mailers patent |
Steam Fuel: | Franklin, Pacific Const. Co. mines |
Steam Safety Valve: | Crosby pop |
Steam Maximum Pressure: | |
Steam Working Pressure: | 55 lbs |
Steam Diameter of Smokestack: | 18" |
Smokestack Height: | 36' |
Drum Dimension: | 4' 2" |
Steam Drum Diameter: | 26" |
Steam Covering: | Asbestos canvas covered |
Steam Boiler Condition: | Good |
Steam Boiler Built: | 1899 |
Where Built: | Erie City, PA |
Manufacturer: | Erie City Iron Works |
Steam Heater: | False |
Kind: | |
Size: | |
Heater Time Affect: | |
Steam Engine Kind: | Old style horizontal |
Steam Engine Revolutions: | 90 rpm |
Steam Engine Cyl. Diameter: | 4" |
Steam Engine Piston Stroke: | 10" |
Steam Engine Pipe Size: | 1" |
Steam Engine When Built: | No date |
Steam Engine Where Built: | NY, NY |
Manufacturer: | Rec'd from Tompkinsville, NY |
Whistle Signal |
Whistle Diameter: | 12" |
Whistle Height: | 32" overall |
Whistle Orifice: | 3 1/8" |
Whistle Tone: | Single |
Whistle Chime: |
Dwelling |
Location: | 2 - 1.5 story dwellings about 560' S'ly from light. |
Coloring: | White with brown roofs |
Construction Materials: | Wood with shingled roofs & inside walls plastered |
Number of Rooms: | 5 in old dwelling; 6 in new. |
Number of Dwellings: | |
Heating Plant: | |
Number of Keepers: | 1 each dwelling |
Furnished Quarters: | |
NOT Furnished Quarters: | |
Outhouses: | Barn & poultry house |
Outhouse Coloring: | White, brown roofs |
Paths and Walks: | Plank walk around dwellings out to fog-signal bldg. |
Area Inclosed: | Boundary fence along W line of reservation. |
Area of Garden: | 4/10 acre |
Area Timber or Shrubbery: | 9 acres |
Cultivation Area Available: | Garden & about 7 acres |
Area Cultivated: | Garden |
Character of Surroundings: | Clay & sand mixed with gravel beach |
Stove, Maker: | |
Stove, Size: | |
Sink, Maker: | |
Sink, Size: | |
Pump, Maker: | |
Pump, Size: | |
Lamps: |
Water |
How Procured: | From rain collected from roof of old dwelling & from spring abt 1000' from dwellings |
Quality: | Fair |
Quantity: | Ample for dwelling. At fog signal in dry & smoky weather, great care must be taken so supply lasts. |
Injury Possible: | No |
Purity Precaution: | None |
Tank Capacity: | 2 cisterns of 19750 gal in rainshed at FS bldg & 1 of 5150 gal cap at old dwelling |
Tank Material: | Brick, plastered with cement |
Distilling Apparatus: | False |
Distilling Manufacturer: | |
Well Description: | |
Well Diameter: | |
Well Lining: | |
Pump or Bucket: | Pump in old dwelling; New has gravity supply |
What Power Used: | |
Distance from Dwelling: | About 10' |
Healthfulness |
General Opinion: | Good, Healthy |
Diseases: | None |
Prevalency: | None |
Local Causes: | Marshy land btwn dwellings & tower which is said to breed mosquitoes. |
Recommended Improvements: | If marsh were filled up, comfort of station might be increased. |
Miscellaneous |
Access to Lighthouse: | Landing made on beach at any point on reservation according to wind. |
Distance and Direction: | 40' at high tide. |
Miscellaneous Remarks: | Light tower should be reconstructed & furnished with a 4th order lantern inside which lens lantern can be placed or when oil engines are installed a combined light & fog signal bldg should be constructed. A gravity water system will be installed. |