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: | |
Flash Interval: | |
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: | |
Arc of Each: | |
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 |
Revolving Panels: | |
How Flash is Produced: | |
Number of Vertical Elements Panel: | |
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: | |
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: | 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 |
Kind: | |
Size: | |
Heater Time Affect: | |
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. |
Stove, Maker: | |
Stove, Size: | |
Sink, Maker: | |
Sink, Size: | |
Pump, Maker: | |
Pump, Size: | |
Lamps: |
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 |
Engine Maker and Date: | |
Serial Number: | |
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Fuel: | |
Hoist Starter: | |
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