The Modern Light-house ServiceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 137 páginas |
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Página 10 - Congress assembled, That the following sums be, aud the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, namely
Página 116 - is exhibited a fixed white light elevated 137 feet above the sea, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of 20 or 22 miles. The light-house appears like a sail when sighted from the northward, and the bands, from want of whitewash, are scarcely to be distinguished.
Página 81 - at the distance of a mile. This is not the effect of wind, as the signal is frequently heard much farther against the wind than with it; for example, the whistle on Cape Elizabeth can always be distinctly heard in Portland, a distance of 9 miles, during a heavy
Página 9 - Repairs of Light-Houses: For repairing, rebuilding, and improving light-houses and buildings, for improvements to grounds connected therewith ; for establishing and repairing pier-head lights; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use, and for incidental expenses relating to these various objects, forty thousand dollars. Northwest Seal Rock Light-Station, California: For continuing the construction of
Página 9 - hundred dollars ; two clerks of class four ; two clerks of class three ; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one ; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two assistant messengers; in
Página 48 - on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington Territory ; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to
Página 114 - tower, painted white, on Samoca Point, southwest side of entrance to the river, is exhibited, at an elevation of 59 feet above the sea, a fixed white light, which should be visible in clear weather from a distance of 10 miles.
Página 65 - that it is sometimes obliterated by a puff of wind taking possession of the ears at the time of its arrival. Its liability to be quenched by an opposing wind, so as to be practically useless at a very short distance to windward, is very remarkable.
Página 115 - the hill of Santa Luzia, on the south side of Espirito Santo Bay, is a light-house which exhibits, at an elevation of 66 feet above high water, a fixed white light, visible in clear weather from a distance of 12 miles.
Página 116 - Cape Santa Maria, from a light-house 125 feet high, is exhibited, at an elevation of 132 feet above the sea, a revolving white light, which attains its greatest brilliancy once in every minute, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of 18 miles.