Anticipation
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10/10/00 03:04 AM
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While we're waiting for our Fresnel models, here's some pics. Maybe HL with choose one of these for next in the series. Stannard Rock lens at the Marquette Maritime Museum Stannard Rock from the inside White Shoal display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum __ /im [This message has been edited by JTimothyA (edited 11-05-2000).]
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Re: Anticipation
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10/10/00 09:24 PM
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Hey Tim, ... Your topic, "Anticipation", fooled me. I thought you would be speaking of everyone's anticipation of trying to get reservations for the 2001 Reunion. Will everybody be smiling on 10/15? Will there be sadness if someone can't get a reservation? Time will tell... By the way, Tim, nice photos! From the East Coast where it's only 39 degrees and my wood stove is cranking up some serious heat. Bob
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Re: Anticipation
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10/11/00 09:40 PM
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Los Angeles Harbor Light Point Vicente Light [This message has been edited by SThompson (edited 10-11-2000).]
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Re: Anticipation
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10/11/00 11:34 PM
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What beautiful photo's. Thanks for sharing them. I have just started to get interested in the frensel lens. I have to admit I no nothing about them. So it should fun learning. I haven't been to the top of very many lighthouses so it is fasinating to me.
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 12:47 AM
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Tim and Sean, thanks so much for the photos. I have really enjoyed them. My favorite has to be L.A. Harbor Light with the Coastie flag hanging on the wall in the background. Semper Paratus! Tim - Keeping the flame lit...
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 01:29 AM
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The Point Vincente lens is really kind of funky in its' style and the bullseyes. Kind of looks like the MasterCard logo, something near and dear to most collectors (tic). Here's some lens on display at the Aids to Navigation School, CG Reserve Training Center in Yorktown, VA. They have on display one of every size except a 3½ order, including a variety of beehives and clamshells. Nice outside display of various navigational markers also. First Order beehive and 2nd order bi-valve An interesting 4th order lens Dave
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 02:12 AM
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Bi-valve and clamshell are one and the same. With the apparent size of the Prescott lens, given a choice between 1st and 3rd, I'd say it has to be a 1st.
Dave
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 01:17 PM
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Since 3rd and 4th were generally 'harbor' size, it would seem the Prescott should be a 3rd unless they obtained a 1st just for display.
First order lenses are generally 'land-fall' lighthouses intended to be seen the farthest at sea.
Are there any 1st order lenses on the Great Lakes? Help!
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 03:04 PM
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These Lenses are onboard the Chesapeake Lightship in Portsmouth, VA.
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 03:20 PM
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Onward to The Land of the Midnight Sun!
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 03:21 PM
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These Lenses are in the Newport News Maritime Museum. Here's another view of the Cape Charles Lens. I believe this could be the lens from Hooper Strait. I am not certain. Does anyone else know? Notice the chariot wheels on the bottom. This lantern is not a rotating lantern. This substantiates that Harbour Lights Fresnel Lens is correctly done. [This message has been edited by SThompson (edited 10-12-2000).]
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 03:23 PM
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Onward to The Land of the Midnight Sun!
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 04:17 PM
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These Lenses are onboard the Chesapeake Lightship in Portsmouth, VA Is that the Portsmouth LS in Portsmouth VA or the Chesapeake LS in Baltimore's Inner Harbor?
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 04:57 PM
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Along with what John has said, the Portsmouth LS is definitely located in Portsmouth, VA, along the wharf at downtown Portsmouth, on the Southern branch of the Elizabeth River. FWIW (For What It's Worth) Tim - Keeping the flame lit...
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 08:06 PM
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Sorry, I was rushing off to work. Portsmouth is the correct Lightship. [This message has been edited by SThompson (edited 10-12-2000).]
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 08:06 PM
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John, I recall seeing the Fresnel display inside the Portsmouth LS. I have not been inside the Chesapeake LS.
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Re: Anticipation
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10/12/00 11:46 PM
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Sean: I read in the link that was provided earlier that the lens in the Hooper Strait light had been stolen. That lighthouse in Prescott, Ontario is a small generic one that was specifically built to house the lens which was donated by the Canadian Coast Guard. They had had it on display at their building which had formerly been a brewery. When they moved to new quarters they didn't want to take it with them. Don't remember any mention of where it had come from but obviously it wasn't necessarily a lake light. I do believe the sign posted in the lantern room said it was a 1st but I read something recently that mentioned it being a third. It was way taller than me. (I just woke I.O. up to ask him how tall he thought it was and he said 25'. When I told him the whole lighthouse wasn't more that 25' he said 2 1/2'.) Go back to sleep I.O.!
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Re: Anticipation
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10/13/00 01:58 AM
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Thanks Mombo, I looked at a posting from Paul over in another thread where he has a photo of a Lens inside Hooper Strait. The one above must be from another Chesapeake Light. I just can't remember where it came from and I can't read the little sign in the photo. I will have to give the museum a call. Thanks
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Re: Anticipation
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10/13/00 02:46 AM
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Mombo is referring to the link to Hooper Island (not Hooper Strait) that I posted somewhere else. It did have its' lens stolen.
Dave
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Re: Anticipation
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10/13/00 02:52 AM
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Oops, sorry for the incorrect information. Thanks Dave for correcting me.
It's a pity that so many of these lenses have been lost. For something that was so expensive even way back when, you'd think more of them could have been preserved. But then what else would you use them for? Some are just kicking around, not identified. Surely they must have some sort of identity that could be traced to the lighthouse they once called home?
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Re: Anticipation
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10/13/00 01:34 PM
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Sue, The really sad thing is how many lenses were most likely "buried at sea" by the Coast Guard in the days they were blowing up and tearing down lighthouses and associated buildings in the 50's and 60's. Fortunately they have altered course to trying to preserve our LH heritage and by most accounts are doing a pretty good job of that.
Dave
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