Report for Guard Island Light Station (Alaska) - 1932
General |
District: | 16th |
Inspector: | Various |
Location: | At the northerly entrance to Tongass Narrows on the ost northerly island of group. |
Date of Report: | 10/14/1932 |
Latitude: | 55° 26' 47.5" |
Longitude: | 131° 52' 45.5" |
Premises |
Site: | Public land reserved by Executive order. |
Date of Reservation: | |
Date of Deed: | 01/06/1901 |
Date of Permission: | |
Date of Lease: | |
Area of the Entire Site: | 9.5 acres |
Area Inclosed: | None. |
Character of Soil: | |
Distance of tower from Nearest High-Water Mark: | 65 feet |
Inclosures to Premises / Type of Fence: | None. |
Wharf or Landing on Premises: | On the NE'ly extremity of island. |
Road to Land or Wharf Chararacter of and Distance: | |
Means to Reach Light Station: | By boat or launch from Aetchinkan about 10.5 miles. |
Distance to Nearest Road: | |
Distance to Post Office: | |
Distance to Village: | |
Facilities for Public Conveyance: | |
Facilities for Private Conveyance: | |
Means Used for Support of Lantern: | Reinforced concrete fog signal building sumounted by a square concrete tower. |
Number of Separate Lights: | 1 |
First Built or Established: | Sept. 15, 1904 |
Last Rebuilt, Repaired, or Renovated: | 1922-24 |
Condition at This Date: | |
Shape of Tower in Plan: | |
Form of Tower: | |
Height from Base to Ventilator Ball: | |
Height of Focal Plane Above Mean High Water: | 79 feet |
Background of Lighthouse as Seen from Sea: | Approached from northward a dark back ground about 3 miles distant; generally against the sky. |
Color of Tower: | White |
Color of Tower/ How Produced: | Paint. |
Tower Connection: | Detached. |
Object of Navigation: | Aid to vessels appoaching or leaving the northerly entrance to Tongass Narrows. |
Building Materials: | Reinforced concrete. |
General Description: | |
Wall Thickness at Base: | |
Wall Thickness at Parapet: | |
Diameter at Base: | |
Diameter at Parapet: | |
Kind of Stairway and Steps: | Wooden. |
Number of Landings: | |
Size of Glass: | 12" x 13" |
Number of Windows and Size of Sash: | 2 - 4 light windows 24" x 36" |
Number of Doors: | 1 outside door 2' x 5' to roof of bldg. 1 door lantern to parapet. |
Kind of Foundation and Depth Below Surface: | |
Character of Soil Surrounding the Lighthouse: | |
Soil Susceptibility: | |
Miscellaneous Remarks: | The tower is on the highest point of the northerly island of group. |
Lantern and Fixtures |
Order of Lantern: | 4th order, Standard. |
Shape of Lantern: | Cylindrical |
Diameter to Glass: | 8' 4" |
Diameter in the Clear: | |
Number of Sides: | |
Type of Bars: | Helical |
Thickness of Bars: | 3/4" |
Height Glazed: | 3' 1.25" |
Number of Plates in Height: | 1 full diamond |
Number of Plates Each Side: | |
Thickness of Plates: | 1/4" |
Size of Plates: | 2' 1.08" x 2' 1.08" |
Number of Storm Panes: | |
Unglazed Side of Lantern: | None. |
What Bearings: | |
Construction Material Lantern: | Cast iron sil; bronze posts; cast iron soffit; wroght iron rafters & purline. |
Construction Material Roof / Cowl: | Cast iron. |
Ventilator / Cowl: | Cast iron. |
Lightning Spindle: | 18" brass spindle with platinum tip. |
Description of Lightning Rod: | |
Balustrade: | Galv. iron pipe rail around gallery; gallery floor reinforced concrete. |
Lantern Doors: | 1 door through parapet 26" x 33" galv. hinges & brass lock. |
Floor of Lantern: | Reinforced concrete. |
Watchroom Doors: | None. |
Parapet Diameter: |
Ventilators |
Location / Number: | Lower part of lantern. |
Ladders / Cleaning Arrangement: | None - accessible without ladder. |
Curtain Hooks / Hanger: | Screwed on steel tower. |
Watchroom |
How is Watchroom Fitted: | None. Large fog signal room with approach to lantern & landing. |
How is Relief Called: | None. |
Where is Call System Led: |
Illuminating Apparatus |
Kind of Apparatus: | |
Intensity in Candles: | 130 cp |
Name of Maker: | A.G.A. Co., Elizabeth, NJ |
Year Made: | |
Marks and Number: | Drum lens |
Order of Apparatus: | |
Inside Diameter: | 300 mm |
Light Characteristic: | Group flashing white. Double flash every 6 secs. thus lt. 0.5, dk. 1.0, lt. 0.5, dk. 4.0 sec. |
Time of Revolution: | |
Flash Interval: | |
Duration of Flash: | |
Arc of Each Fixed Part: | |
Number of Panels: | |
Number of Flash Panels: | |
Arc of Each: | |
Number of Elements in Central Drum: | |
Number of Prisms Above Center Drum: | |
Number of Prisms Below Center Drum: | |
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: | 2" pipe with disc at top & bottom, screwed to concrete floor. |
Service Table: | |
Draft Tube Description: | None. |
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: | None. |
How Color is Produced: | |
Red Sectors Description: | |
Where Color Attached: | |
Form of Colored Glass: | |
Lamp Description: | AG Flasher |
Type of Illuminant: | Acetylene gas. |
Number of Spare Lamps: | None |
Number of Spare Burners: | None |
Candle Power: | 24 cp, 230 through lens. |
Compressed Gas |
Gas Container: | 4 - A25 |
Compressed Gas Capacity: | 88 Cu. ft. each |
Compressed Gas Charge: | 220 lbs |
How Supply Renewed: | Substituting full container for empties. |
At What Intervals: | 6 months. |
Spare Containers: | 4 |
Gas Light |
Gas Light Kind: | Acetylene |
Gas Light Number of Burners: | 1 |
Kind of Burner: | AGA Type |
Candlepower Per Burner: | 24 |
Total Candlepower: | |
Consumption Gas Burner Per Hour: | 3/4 cube feet. |
Total Consumption Per Hour: | 3/4 foot |
How Gas Obtained: | From accumulator containing acetylene dissolved in |
Occulting Light |
Characteristic: | Group flashing white. Double flash every 6 secs. thus 0.5 sec. flash, 1.0 sec. eclipse. 0.5 flash, 4.0 sec eclipse. |
Time Limit: | Unable to state. |
Eclipse Type: | Valve (Gaslight) |
Size and Amplitude: | |
Axis Rotation: | |
Axis Relation: | |
Screen Revolution: | |
Screen Number: | |
Screen Time: | |
Screen Form: | |
Screen Mounting: | |
Screen Order: | |
Screen Date: | |
Valve Maker: | American Gass Accumaulator Co. |
Valve Pattern: | Dahlen Patent, Flasher K-130 |
Reliability: | Yes. |
Closets and Store Rooms |
Tower Closet Use: | None. |
Oil House Description: | 40' Easterly of tower |
Oil House Inside Dimension: | 9' x 15' |
Oil House Construction Material: | Wood frame & corrugated iron with concrete foundation. |
Oil House Capacity: | Oil stored in cylindrical tank, 48" x 9' long, capacity 846 gallons. |
Other (Describe): | Lockers in south end of fog signal building. |
Suitability: | Dry & suitable. |
Fog Signal General |
Fog Signal Kind: | Type "C" diaphone |
Time to Start: | 10 minutes |
How Long Will Pressure Last: | |
Manufacturer: | |
Year of Manufacture: | |
Characteristic: | 5 sec. blast, 25 sec. silent, 5 sec. blast, 25 sec. silent. |
Duplication: | Engine & compressor. |
Timing Device: | 17th District Blast Device. |
If whistle, siren, or trumpet, Pressure at Which Blown: | 30 lbs. |
Height Above Water: | 68 feet. |
Compass Direction: | Vertical, mushrom top resonator. |
Location: | |
Distance and Direction: | All in 1 building. |
Water Supply: | Rain water from roof drained to concrete cisterns about 4 ft. SW of fig signal building, 3253 gals. No filter. |
Reached from Lighthouse: | In same building. |
Description of Fog Signal Building: | Reinforced concrete building 20' x 36' x 16' high with 8' 6" x 8' 6" tower 7' 9" high from roof to lantern floor. Double doors east side, single door north side. |
Pressure And Recording Gauge: | Has American Steam Gauge & Valve Co., Boston, Mass. |
Internal Combustion Signal |
Fog Signal Kind: | |
Internal Combustion Kind: | Mietz Kerosene Oil engines |
Internal Combustion Manufacturer: | Charter Gas Engine Co.l, Sterling, IL |
Internal Combustion Date: | 1923 |
Internal Combustion Size: | 7" x 8" |
Internal Combustion Horsepower: | 8 HP |
Internal Combustion Fuel: | Kiesel Oil |
Internal Combustion Starter: | On kerosene by heating torch. |
Compressor Maker: | Unknown |
Compressor Seat: | Separate with chain driven. |
Compressor Machinery: | |
Compressor Diameter: | 7" |
Compressor Stroke: | 5" |
Compressor RPMs: | 266 rpms |
Character of Air Inlet: | 3" |
Kind of Unloader: | Air control |
Diameter of Delivery Pipe: | 2" |
Trumpet Signal |
Trumpet: | Daboil Resonator |
Trumpet Length: | 3' vertical |
Trumpet Diameter: | 10" |
Trumpet Material: | Steel |
Air Receiver |
Number: | 2 |
Diameter: | 4' 0" |
Height: | 8' 0' |
Capacity Cubic Feet: | 100 |
Pressure in Each: | |
Make of Reducing Valve: | None |
Remarks: | Dia. of exhaust pipe 3", dia. discharge pipe 2", dia. of pipe between receivers, 2.5" |
Dwelling |
Location: | 2 dwellings about 100 ft. N'ly from tower. |
Coloring: | Each dwelling white with red roof. |
Construction Materials: | East dwelling; basement concrete, balance froame. West dwelling; cement brick. |
Number of Rooms: | 6 each |
Number of Dwellings: | 2 |
Heating Plant: | Boynton's water heater, NY in east dwelling. Am. Radiator Co. hot water heater in west dwelling. |
Number of Keepers: | 1 with family. |
Furnished Quarters: | All keepers |
NOT Furnished Quarters: | None. |
Outhouses: | 1 boat house, 1 car house both of frame, 1 oil house. |
Outhouse Coloring: | All white with red roofs. |
Paths and Walks: | Cenent walks from dwelling to all other buildings. |
Area Inclosed: | None |
Area of Garden: | |
Area Timber or Shrubbery: | |
Cultivation Area Available: | None. |
Area Cultivated: | NOne. |
Character of Surroundings: | Rocky |
Stove, Maker: | Monarch Range |
Stove, Size: | |
Sink, Maker: | |
Sink, Size: | |
Pump, Maker: | |
Pump, Size: | |
Lamps: |
Water |
How Procured: | Rainwater off roofs. |
Quality: | Fair. |
Quantity: | Ample |
Injury Possible: | Well protected in cement cisterns well above high water. |
Purity Precaution: | Filtered through brick walls; East cistern painted inside with P&B paint. |
Tank Capacity: | East dwelling; cir cistern 12,000 gals, west dwelling 11,000 gals. |
Tank Material: | Concrete |
Distilling Apparatus: | False |
Distilling Manufacturer: | |
Well Description: | |
Well Diameter: | |
Well Lining: | |
Pump or Bucket: | Pump |
What Power Used: | Compressed air. |
Distance from Dwelling: |
Healthfulness |
General Opinion: | Good. |
Diseases: | None. |
Prevalency: | |
Local Causes: | |
Recommended Improvements: |
Miscellaneous |
Access to Lighthouse: | Landing (inclined tramway); motor operated by gasoline engine to boat house. |
Distance and Direction: | About 300 ft. SW'ly from tower. |
Miscellaneous Remarks: |
Boats |
Boat #1 | |
Boat Number: | 37 |
Type: | Launch |
Length: | 5' 11" |
Width: | 20' 1" |
When Built: | Unknown |
Date Harbored at Station: | Mar.21, 1928 |
Sails: | False |
Suited to Work: | Yes. |
Boat #2 | |
Boat Number: | 3 |
Type: | Skiff |
Length: | 51" |
Width: | 16' |
When Built: | 1924 |
Date Harbored at Station: | May 23, 1924 |
Sails: | False |
Suited to Work: | Yes. |
Boat #3 | |
Boat Number: | 5 |
Type: | Double end |
Length: | 56" |
Width: | 16' |
When Built: | 1924 |
Date Harbored at Station: | Sept. 1925 |
Sails: | False |
Suited to Work: | Yes. |
Power Boat |
Engine Type: | Outboard |
Horsepower: | 10 |
Engine Maker: | Prissie Motor Co. |
Spare Coil: | |
Magnet: | |
Battery: | Dry - 6 |
Propeller Diameter: | 18" |
Propeller Pitch: | 18" |
Hoisting Engines |
Hoisting Engine Kind: | Gasoline |
Engine RPMs: | 350 rpm |
Engine Diameter: | 3" |
Engine Stroke: | 6" |
Engine Boiler: | |
Engine Maker and Date: | |
Serial Number: | |
Cylinders and Size: | |
Horsepower: | |
Fuel: | |
Hoist Starter: | |
Hoist Miscellaneous: |