Coast Guard Typical Lighthouse. A drawing by a Coast Guard engineer illustrates a type of Coast Guard lighthouse that combines the light tower, radio beacon, fog signal, and keepers' quarters all in one structure. Strictly speaking there is no typical lighthouse. There are as many different types as there are lighthouses. Each new construction poses some different engineering problems. The location of a lighthouse, whether in water or on shore, the importance of the light, the kind of soil upon which it is to be built, and the prevalence of violent storms have a direct bearing upon t
Coast Guard Typical Lighthouse. A drawing by a Coast Guard engineer illustrates a type of Coast Guard lighthouse that combines the light tower, radio beacon, fog signal, and keepers' quarters all in one structure. Strictly speaking there is no typical lighthouse. There are as many different types as there are lighthouses. Each new construction poses some different engineering problems. The location of a lighthouse, whether in water or on shore, the importance of the light, the kind of soil upon which it is to be built, and the prevalence of violent storms have a direct bearing upon the type of structure erected and on the materials of which it will be built. In the majority of instances the fog signal, the radiobeacon equipment and the operating personnel are housed in separate buildings grouped around the tower. Such a group of buildings has always constituted a light station. In recent years, however, the Coast Guard's official term for all lighthouses has been "light stations".
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