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Kind of stairway and steps. Iron
Number of landings of stairway. Five (5)
Size of glass for glazing tower windows. Ten by twelve (10 x 12) inches
Number of windows in tower, and size of sash. Four (4) windows size of each 6.6” x 2.3”
Kind of foundation and depth below the surface. Concrete, seven (7) feet below surface.
Character of soil at and surrounding the light-house. Dark clayey loam.
Soil susceptible to being protected by grass, shrubbery, or trees. Grass grows well. The winds are too violent for shrubbery or trees.
Miscellaneous remarks upon the tower and site. The tower is located on the extreme westerly point of the cape, within twenty feet of the edge of a perpendicular rocky cliff seventy above sea level. The Keeper’s dwelling is located seventy feet east of the tower, at which point the cape is only two hundred and fifty feet wide, with perpendicular cliffs of rock on either side, overlaid by a strata of gravel and clay, five feet deep, on top of which is eighteen inches of soil.
The wind at times sweeps across the point of the cape with great violence taking gravel stones from the cliffs a hundred feet distant and hurling them against the dwelling with such force as to break the glass in the windows.
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Order of class of lantern. First order
Diameter Eleven feet six inches
Number of sides in plan Sixteen
Height glazed. Nine feet seven and one half inches 9’ 7 1/2”
Number of plates in height. Three
Number of plates in each side. Three
Thickness of plates. Five sixteenth of an inch (5/16”)
Size of the different plates. Bottom (30”/8”, 2’ 6 7/8” 31” Middle( 39 3/16”, 3’ 3/16” 39” Top (44 3/16”, 3’ 8 3/4”, 44’ ½” All (25 3/16”, 2’ 4 3/16” wide, 27 7/8
Number of storm panes of glass. Three
Unglazed side of lantern is constructed. Iron
Lightning conductor, of what material; how attached to spindle; how led, and how far below the surface of dry earth, or otherwise, as the case may be.
Lightning conductor of iron, attached to spindle by a loop in the end of the rod. It is led down the side of the tower and two feet below the surface of the ground, thence away from the tower twenty feet horizontally, then down five feet to moist earth.
Balustrade and outside gallery. The outside gallery is of cast iron. Balustrade consists of wrought iron posts, rails and balustrade.
Lantern doors and how fitted. There are no doors in the lantern.
Floor of lantern—of what materials. Iron
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Watch-room door leading into lantern, and how fitted. A wooden door fitted into an iron pane, hung with butt hinges, and fastened by a spring lock.
VENTILATORS
In parapet, wall, or lower part of lantern. Tower part of lantern.
Lantern ladders for cleaning plate glass outside. One (iron)
Curtain hooks inside of lantern—how fitted Curtain hooks, screwed into iron-work at top of lantern.
WATCH ROOM
How fitted. A work-bench with lockers underneath
Bell wires, or speaking tubes, for calling relief keepers—kind. None
ILLUMINATING APPARATUS &c.
Order and characteristic distinction of apparatus. Catacdroptric, Fresnel lens.
If movable; time of revolution, and intervals between and duration of flashes.
If fixed, or fixed varied by flashes; are of fixed part in degrees, and between what points of compass seen.
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Number of panels in the lens apparatus. Eight
Number of prisms of each panel above dioptric drum or central belt of the lens. Eighteen
Number of prisms of each panel below dioptric drum or central belt of lens. Eight
Pedestal. Iron
Service table. Wooden service table in watchroom.
Tube leading through the center of the upper metal ring of the lens into the cowl, to carry off the gases of combustion and to assist in producing a proper draught in the lantern—of what material, diameter, and how fitted and connected with damper tube when in place. Tube made of iron, four inches in diameter supported and held in place by lugs. The upper end of the damper tube fits closely into its lower end. Tube 2’ 9 7/8” long 3 12/16” diameter
If revolving, revolving machinery.
Revolving cord or chain—how led.
Length of drop tube.
Length of time revolving machinery will run after being wound up.
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How regulated; describe.
How the flashes are produced: By the whole apparatus revolving; by the central belts only revolving; by vertical elements-panels off vertical revolving outside of fixed lens, and, if so, the number of such panels, or how?
If Colored Light. How is the color produced? Describe. Lamps and Burners. Description of lamp in use and number of wicks to burner. Funck’s hydraulic float lamp, - 4 wicks Number of spare lamps at the station. One Number of spare-lamp burners at the station. Three Tools, Implements, And Accessories. Lantern curtains. Two sets Lens covers. Two sets Damper tube and key. Two Spare damper and key. One Carillon, or alarm bell, for overflow lamp. None