Talk:Screw-pile lighthouse
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I removed a section of this article and recreated it as "pile lighthouse". I've read a fair amount about lighthouses over the years, and the Florida structures are always classed as a separate style of lighthouse from the screw-pile ones. --AlbertHerring 23:24, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- I reverted the removal of the paragraph about Florida reef lighthouses. While some of the Florida reef lighthouses were built on piles driven into the bottom, the American Shoal Light, Carysfort Reef Light, Fowey Rocks Light and Sand Key Light were built on screw-pile foundations, per the U.S. Coast Guard Historic Light Station Information for Florida. All but the Sand Key Light are still operational. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 10:49, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- OK, thanks for the clarification. I misunderstood it as saying that all of the reef lights were screwpiles, which I'd never heard. Although come to think of it, I've never seen the distinction drawn...just goes to show how woefully inadequate the print media on the subject is. --AlbertHerring 17:49, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- One of the sources I used, Love Dean's Reef Lights, has quite a bit of detail, including, for example, the original drawing for the Sand Key Light showing the screws on the ends of the pilings, the manufacturer of the tower (John F. Riley Ironworks of Charleston, South Carolina), and a detailed description of the seventeen screw piles used (wrought iron, eight inches in diameter, thirteen feet long, with a cast iron screw with a flange two feet in diameter). Unfortunately, the book only covers six lighthouses. I wish I could find such detailed coverage of other lighthouses. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 21:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- So do I. Especially since the most in-depth source about Chesapeake lighthouses, which includes a fair amount of information on the screw-piles (De Gast's Lighthouses of the Chesapeake) is riddled with errors. --AlbertHerring 17:06, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- One of the sources I used, Love Dean's Reef Lights, has quite a bit of detail, including, for example, the original drawing for the Sand Key Light showing the screws on the ends of the pilings, the manufacturer of the tower (John F. Riley Ironworks of Charleston, South Carolina), and a detailed description of the seventeen screw piles used (wrought iron, eight inches in diameter, thirteen feet long, with a cast iron screw with a flange two feet in diameter). Unfortunately, the book only covers six lighthouses. I wish I could find such detailed coverage of other lighthouses. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 21:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- OK, thanks for the clarification. I misunderstood it as saying that all of the reef lights were screwpiles, which I'd never heard. Although come to think of it, I've never seen the distinction drawn...just goes to show how woefully inadequate the print media on the subject is. --AlbertHerring 17:49, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
