West Coast Lighthouses All 48 images on this compact disc are royaltyfree. This disc, like the others that we sell are compatible with the MacOS, Windows, Linux, and any other operating system that http://www.the4cs.com/~lighthouses/WestCoast.html
Extractions: on compact disc All 48 images on this compact disc are royalty-free . This disc, like the others that we sell are compatible with the MacOS, Windows, Linux, and any other operating system that supports the ISO 9660 CD-ROM format. All CDs are glass-master replicated (not just CD-Rs!) and are individually wrapped in their own jewel case. These high-quality images are ideal for use on business cards, brochures, newsletters, screen savers, wallpaper, and just about any place else a photograph could be used. Customers have told us they have used our images as cover art for quarterly financial reviews, as calendars, as book graphics, as t-shirt images, to name just a few. Better still, if you have a graphics editing program, you can manipulate the images to suit your needs. The West Coast CD features images from along the West Coast of the United States. Below is a complete list of the lighthouses featured on the West Coast CD, as well as a few representative images. (The images we show here are lower resolution than on the CD, to speed your web browser in loading this page.) Included lighthouses Sample scenes Heceta Head Admiralty Head Cape Meares Cape Arago Alki Point Coquille River Mukilteo Old Point Loma Point Wilson Punta Gorda West Point Point Loma Point No Point Point Pinos Point Robinson Point Arena Lime Kiln Point Cabrillo Cape Blanco Point Montara Umpqua River Point Conception Yaquina Bay Cape Mendecino Yaquina Head
Point Pinos Lighthouse Since February 1, 1855, this lighthouse has provided as a nightly guide and warning to sailors off the rocky California Coast. Today, it remains the oldest continuously-operating lighthouse on the West Coast, featuring exhibits, interpretive tours, and a small gift shop. http://www.ci.pg.ca.us/lighthouse
Extractions: Oldest Continuously-Operating Lighthouse on the West Coast Since February 1, 1855, its beacon has flashed nightly as a guide and warning to shipping off the rocky California coast. Alcatraz Island Lighthouse preceded Point Pinos by 8 months, but was replaced in 1909 by the expanding military prison. The light is a third order Fresnel with lenses, prisms and mechanism manufactured in France in 1853. A larger, second order light had been planned, but delay in shipment caused the present light, originally destined for the Fort Point Lighthouse in San Francisco, to be installed instead. The first light source was a whale oil lantern in which the oil was forced up from a tank by a gravity-operated piston. Lard oil soon replaced whale oil, and in turn was replaced by kerosene in 1880. At the turn of the century, an incandescent vapor lamp was used, followed by electric lights in 1919. From 1912 to 1940 a falling weight mechanism rotated a metal shutter around the light causing the beam to be cut off to seaward for 10 out of every 30 seconds. Thereafter a timed flasher provided the "on/off" characteristic. The present light source, located 89 feet above sea level, is a 1000 watt bulb, which is amplified by the lenses and prisms to produce a 50,000 candlepower beam visible under favorable conditions up to 17 miles distant. Formerly, the light had a rigid schedule of being lit one hour prior to sunset, and extinguished one hour after sunrise. With automation completed in 1975, a small battery-operated back-up strobe light was installed outside the tower, and the main light was turned on permanently. The present signal has a simple 3-second on/1-second off signature. As a further navigational aid, a Class D radio beacon operated continuously which had a range of up to 20 miles. A foghorn was also located below the lighthouse closer to shore which could be turned on manually by the Coast Guard personnel when lack of visibility warranted its use. With the advent of global positioning satellite navigation in 1993, the radio beacon and foghorn were deactivated.
Chart Art Prints Of West Coast Lighthouses Chart Art Prints Beautiful Limited Edition Prints. Artist Betty Vestuto Paintings on USCG charts. USCG prints are available in various sizes, with or without frames. Or create http://www.chart-art.com/lthouses-w.htm
Extractions: larger image Code/Name Admiralty Head Lighthouse Alki Point Alki Point Lighthouse Anacapa Light Barbers Point Lighthouse British Columbia Lighthouses Browns Point Lighthouse California Lighthouse Vignette (13 Lights) Cape Arago Lighthouse Cape Blanco Lighthouse Cape Disappointment Lighthouse Cape Disappointment Lighthouse Cape Edgecumbe Lighthouse Crescent City Lighthouse Diamond Head Dofflemyer Lighthouse Dungeness Lighthouse Grays Harbor Lighthouse Gulf of Alaska Lighthouses Heceta Head Lighthouse Lighthouses Of Hawaii Lime Kiln Lighthouse Memorial Light Mukilteo Lighthouse and Kitsap Ferry Mukilteo Lighthouse New Dungeness Lighthouse New Dungeness Lighthouse with Sailboat North Head Lighthouse Click picture for
West Coast Overview The map below is fully under your control. 1. Click on a portion of the map and drag it to move the map around 2. Click on the control ( + or ) at the top left to zoom in http://www.lighthousesrus.org/Maps/Overview/WestCoast.htm
Lighthouse Directory Provides information, photographs and links for more than 8,300 of the world's lighthouses. List maintained by Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina. http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/
