Report for Cape Flattery Light Station (Washington) - 1910

General
District: 17th
Inspector: Maj. J. F. McIndae, Corps of Engineers
Location: Situated on Tatoosh Island, S'ly side of entrance to Strait of Juan de Fuca, WA.
Date of Report: 02/28/1910
Latitude: 48° 23' 30"
Longitude: 124° 44' 06"
Premises
Site: Public land set aside for Lighthouse purposes.
Date of Reservation: 10/03/1851
Date of Deed:
Date of Permission:
Date of Lease:
Area of the Entire Site: About 20 acres
Area Inclosed: About 10 acres fenced off for pasture
Character of Soil: Clay & loam
Distance of tower from Nearest High-Water Mark: 170'
Inclosures to Premises / Type of Fence: Small patch of garden, about 1/4 acre.
Wharf or Landing on Premises: Landing on beach in small bay on Main Island.
Road to Land or Wharf Chararacter of and Distance: Footpath leads to landing & tramway to derrick distant respectively 500' & 375'.
Means to Reach Light Station: By Tender, or by Tug landing in small boat or by boat or canoe from Neah Bay.
Distance to Nearest Road: 6 miles to Neah Bay
Distance to Post Office: Tatoosh Post Office is located at station.
Distance to Village: 6 miles to Neah Bay
Facilities for Public Conveyance: None. Mail canoe leaves Neah Bay for station once each week.
Facilities for Private Conveyance: Indian canoe can be hired in Neah Bay 6 miles distant. Steamboat line makes 3 calls weekly at Neah Bay
Means Used for Support of Lantern: Towe
Number of Separate Lights: 1
First Built or Established: 1857
Last Rebuilt, Repaired, or Renovated: 1900 workroom & additions made
Condition at This Date: Fair
Shape of Tower in Plan: Circular
Form of Tower: Conical
Height from Base to Ventilator Ball: 74'
Height of Focal Plane Above Mean High Water: 155'
Background of Lighthouse as Seen from Sea: Dark green timber & distant hills seen against sky from S.
Color of Tower: White
Color of Tower/ How Produced: Whitewash
Tower Connection: Tower connected with double stone dwelling. Frame dwelling 95' from tower.
Object of Navigation: Seacoast
Building Materials: Brick, cemented
General Description:
Wall Thickness at Base: Outer walls, 17"; inside walls 13"
Wall Thickness at Parapet: 30" at spring of arch forming watchroom floor.
Diameter at Base: 17' tower circular, 10' 6" inside
Diameter at Parapet: 15' 2" outside, 10' 6" inside.
Kind of Stairway and Steps: Wooden stairs to landing below watchroom, iron ladder to watchroom & iron steps to ladder.
Number of Landings: 3
Size of Glass: 8" x 12" (12 lights)
Number of Windows and Size of Sash: 2 - 2' 3" x 2' 5"
Number of Doors: 5 & trap door in watchroom floor.
Kind of Foundation and Depth Below Surface: About 5'
Character of Soil Surrounding the Lighthouse: Clay & loam overlying sedimentary rock.
Soil Susceptibility: By grass, too windy for trees, Salmon & thimble berry bush grows readily.
Miscellaneous Remarks: Executive Order, May 23, 1877 & July 27, 1877. Tower situated on highest point of Main island.
Lantern and Fixtures
Order of Lantern: 1st
Shape of Lantern: Polygonal
Diameter to Glass: 12'
Diameter in the Clear: 11' 4"
Number of Sides: 16
Type of Bars: Vertical
Thickness of Bars:
Height Glazed: 9' 4.5"
Number of Plates in Height: 3
Number of Plates Each Side: 3
Thickness of Plates: 5/16" to 3/8"
Size of Plates: 24 3/4" bottom; 38 3/4" middle; 23 3/4" 2 tops should be 1 - 47.5" all 27 3/4" wide
Number of Storm Panes: 3
Unglazed Side of Lantern: Glazed all around
What Bearings:
Construction Material Lantern: Cast iron, steel, copper, brass & glass
Construction Material Roof / Cowl: Hemispherical sheet copper roof on steel or iron frame.
Ventilator / Cowl: Copper ball with ventilating openings on lower side.
Lightning Spindle: Of brass with platinum tip
Description of Lightning Rod: 5/8" dia, copper wire rope with eye passed around spindle & led down to iron pipe buried in ground about 12' from base of bldg & about 3' deep.
Balustrade: Iron gallery & hand rail at level of watchroom floor & at lantern floor with iron ladder connecting the 2.
Lantern Doors: No door in lantern. Door from watchroom to gallery iron door fitted with rim knot lock.
Floor of Lantern: Cast iron
Watchroom Doors: No door btwn watchroom & lantern, trap door in watchroom floor, iron door on iron frame
Parapet Diameter: No parapet. Lantern is glazed to floor. Balcony is circular 18' dia. Lantern gallery is 16 sided 16' dia. Watchroom - 12' dia
Ventilators
Location / Number: Sliding register below lantern pane in each face of lantern
Ladders / Cleaning Arrangement: Wooden step ladder used for cleaning lantern glass.
Curtain Hooks / Hanger: None. Curtains fitted on shade rollers & are operated by pulleys & cords.


Watchroom
How is Watchroom Fitted: 1 locker for cleaning material, 1 for storm panes. Watchroom at base of tower used as watchroom & fitted with work bench containing locker & drawers, deck chair & box heating stove.
How is Relief Called: None
Where is Call System Led:
Illuminating Apparatus
Kind of Apparatus:
Intensity in Candles:
Name of Maker: Louis Sautter & Co., Paris
Year Made: 1854
Marks and Number: Fresnel light 1st order constructed by order of the Honorable Secretary of the Treasury of the United States & the lighthouse Board N.A. Bartles Lieut
Order of Apparatus: 1st
Inside Diameter: 6' 1/8"
Light Characteristic: Fixed white with red sector covering Duncan Rock
Time of Revolution:
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Duration of Flash:
Arc of Each Fixed Part: 270 degrees Fixed 90 degrees silvered reflector
Number of Panels: 6 lens panels & 2 reflecting panels
Number of Flash Panels:
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Number of Elements in Central Drum: 17
Number of Prisms Above Center Drum: 13
Number of Prisms Below Center Drum: 6
Does Apparatus Revolve?: False
Is There a Revolving Belt?: False
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Fixed Lens Covered:
Pedestal: Of cast iron extending to watchroom floor.
Service Table: Locker in watchroom top of locker being used as a table.
Draft Tube Description: Of brass 5" in dia. connecting with 7" cast iron tube to ventilator. Damper tube is 3 15/16" dia. & is connected to upper tube by lugs rivetted on damper tube 1 set carrying tube when in place & 1 set when raised for placing of chimney.
Revolving Machinery:
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Lens Protection:
How Color is Produced: Red sector produced by strip of ruby glass 10" wide attached to lantern
Red Sectors Description: 164 degrees 45' (SE 7/16 W) 171 degrees (SSE 15/16 E)
Where Color Attached: To lantern on inside of lantern pane
Form of Colored Glass:
Lamp Description: Float lamp 1st order
Type of Illuminant:
Number of Spare Lamps: 1 complete
Number of Spare Burners: 2 besides those on lamps
Candle Power:


Vapor Oil Lamp
Number of Wicks or Mantels:
Diameter of Outside Wick: 4 5/16"
Diameter of Mantel:
Diameter of Circum Circle:
Closets and Store Rooms
Tower Closet Use: None
Oil House Description: 1 - 43' NE'ly & 1 - 43' NW'ly from tower
Oil House Inside Dimension: 8' x 11' 4"
Oil House Construction Material: Glavanized iron
Oil House Capacity: 3240 gallons
Other (Describe): In dwellings fitted with shelves & hooks & used for storage of household effects & wearing apparel
Suitability: Dry & suitable
Fog Signal General
Fog Signal Kind: Steam fog signal 12" whistle in duplicate
Time to Start: 1 hour to 1.5 hours
How Long Will Pressure Last:
Manufacturer: Whistles & 1 engine from Tompkinsville, NY; other engine NY Safety Steam Power Co.
Year of Manufacture: Unknown
Characteristic: 8 sec blast, 52 sec silent
Duplication: 2 complete plants by whistles are only strictly duplicate parts.
Timing Device: Governors on engines; Pickering on N; Gardiner on S.
If whistle, siren, or trumpet, Pressure at Which Blown: 75 lbs
Height Above Water: 117'
Compass Direction:
Location: 90' N'ly from tower & established to mark entrance to Straits of Juan de Fuca.
Distance and Direction: About 100' NW'ly
Water Supply: Cistern & tank
Reached from Lighthouse: By foot walks
Description of Fog Signal Building: Brick bldg cemented on outside, roof lined with corrugated iron & covered with plain galvanized iron; Brick stack 36' high surmounted by iron stack 16' long.
Pressure And Recording Gauge:
Steam Signal
Steam Boiler: 1 boiler brickset, 1/2 arch front; 1 boiler brick set, full arch front; both 42" dia, 12' lont
Kind: Cylindrical shell tubular brick set externally fired
Tube: Flue tubes
Dimensions: 12'
Length: 42"
Diameter:
Tube Description: N Boiler - 36 tubes, 12' long; S Boiler - 42 tubes, 12' long
Steam Tube Diameter: 3"
Steam Furnace Kind: Brick
Furnace Length: N 42"; S 48"
Furnace Width: N 48"; S 52"
Furnace Height: N 18.5"; S 23.5"
Steam Heat Surface: N 381 sq. ft.; S 441 sq. ft.
Steam Grate Surface: N 12.7 sq. ft.; S 16.7 sq. ft.
Number of Grate Bars: N boiler 35 single bars; S boiler 19 double bars
Kind of Grate Bars: Single web bars - N boiler; Double web bars - S.
Steam Fuel: Bituminous domestic
Steam Safety Valve: N - weight loaded; S - pop valve, waynes safety
Steam Maximum Pressure: 100 lbs
Steam Working Pressure: 75 lbs
Steam Diameter of Smokestack: Brick stack 23" x 26" inside with 20" dia. sheet iron exterior.
Smokestack Height: 50' to top of extension.
Drum Dimension: N 32" high; S 40" high
Steam Drum Diameter: N 24"; S 29"
Steam Covering: Boilers brick set & covered with brick
Steam Boiler Condition: Fair
Steam Boiler Built: N - 1893; S - 1897
Where Built: Erie City, PA
Manufacturer: N - Erie City Boiler Works; S - PA Boiler Works
Steam Heater: False
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Size:
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Steam Engine Kind: N- vertical; S - old style horizontal
Steam Engine Revolutions: N - 200 rpms; S - 90 rpms.
Steam Engine Cyl. Diameter: N - 3"; S - 4"
Steam Engine Piston Stroke: N - 5"; S - 10"
Steam Engine Pipe Size: N - 3/4"; S - 1"
Steam Engine When Built: Unknown
Steam Engine Where Built: N - NY; S received from Tompkinsville, NY
Manufacturer: N - NY Safety Steam Power Co.; S received from Tompkinsville, NY


Whistle Signal
Whistle Diameter: 12"
Whistle Height: 32" over all
Whistle Orifice: 3"
Whistle Tone: Single
Whistle Chime:
Dwelling
Location: 1 double dwelling attached to tower & 1 double frame dwelling about 100' from it.
Coloring: Stone dwelling is whitewashed, frame dwelling painted white.
Construction Materials: Tower dwelling - stone with concrete additions. Other dwelling - wood. Both have shingle roofs.
Number of Rooms: 5 in each tower dwelling; 6 in each frame dwelling.
Number of Dwellings: 4
Heating Plant:
Number of Keepers: 1
Furnished Quarters:
NOT Furnished Quarters:
Outhouses: Large woodshed, barn, 4 privies & 2 poulty houses; Carpenter shop, boat house, hoisting engine house & storehouse
Outhouse Coloring: White with brown roofs
Paths and Walks: Cement walks around dwellings; paths to landing & tramway from tower to derrick.
Area Inclosed: 3 acres, wire fence
Area of Garden: About 1/2 acre
Area Timber or Shrubbery: None
Cultivation Area Available: About 15 acres
Area Cultivated: About 1/2 acre
Character of Surroundings: Reservation comprises whole group of islands & rocks, mainland about 3/4 mile distant & heavily timbered with spruce & cedar.
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Water
How Procured: Rain water collected from roofs & shallow well.
Quality: Good. Water in well unfit for other than boiler use.
Quantity: Ample
Injury Possible: No
Purity Precaution: Brick filter walls are placed in cisterns.
Tank Capacity: 2 cisterns N of tower, 6000 gal.; tank SE of frame dwell, 15,000 gal; cistern N of FS bldg, 31,000 gal; tank N of FS bldg, 6,000 gal.
Tank Material: Cisterns of brick; tanks of redwood.
Distilling Apparatus: False
Distilling Manufacturer:
Well Description: Well in low swale & collects seepage of surface. 6.5' deep
Well Diameter: 5'
Well Lining: Lined with brick laid without mortar.
Pump or Bucket: Force pump to Fog Signal cistern
What Power Used:
Distance from Dwelling: Abt. 500' from tower dwell; 600' from cistern at Fog Signal.
Healthfulness
General Opinion: Station considered healthy
Diseases: None
Prevalency: No
Local Causes: No
Recommended Improvements: Ground E'ly from station could be drained to advantage to carry off surface water which collects rendering pasture swampy but not unhealthy.
Miscellaneous
Access to Lighthouse: Landing made on E'ly beach of small bay. Frame boat house equip'd w/ windlass placed above HWM. Portable track laid from boat house to water edge. Landing fair in mod. weather & rough weather is best at 1/2 tide on ebb. Track equip'd w/ car for supplies.
Distance and Direction: Landing about 500' from tower & bears NE'ly
Miscellaneous Remarks: Tower & illuminating apparatus in good order. Minor repairs are req'd to dwellings & other bldgs. Boat house should be rebuilt.
Hoisting Engines
Hoisting Engine Kind: J.S. Mundy, Newark NJ # 1666 (1892)
Engine RPMs: 225
Engine Diameter: 5.5"
Engine Stroke: 10"
Engine Boiler: Vertical 34" x 84" - 60 tubes 2" dia. 57" long
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