Talk:Sand Island Light (Wisconsin)

message: It is incorrect to state that the light was deactivated from 1933 through 1980. Like the claims concerning the aerobeacon, this statement appears to be taken from the U.S. National Park Service Maritime History web page, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:peX8XEQDtHUJ:www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/park/sandisl.htm+http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/park/sandisl.htm&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com , which includes several inaccuracies.
The most readily available, and authoritative, reference confirming the light's operation during this period would be the annual U.S. Coast Guard Light Lists: eg,  the 1946 edition, "Sand Island.... flashing white, 10 seconds. U. 60 feet above low water or, seen 13 miles.  480 candlepower, 375 mm apparatus. Acetylene.  flash 1 .5 second white day mark on square skeleton tower established 1881 rebuilt 1933."  (Note also the reference to the illuminating apparatus.)
Many other sources attest to the light's operation during this timespan:
The Raspberry Island Lighthouse keeper's log, on file in the National Archives and available also at the Apostles Islands National Lakeshore headquarters, is another excellent source. After Sand Island was automated in 1921, the nearby Raspberry Island keepers were assigned responsibility for the beacon. Their daily logs contains numerous references  to the operation of the Sand Island light during the period in question. For example, "5/4/34- 1st and 2nd Assistants left Station at 8 A.M. to look after Sand Island Light.  Put Sand Island in commission.... 7/13/35- Relighted Sand Island.....  7/4/37-  General duties.  Keeper and 1st Assistant relighted Sand Island.... 5/3/39-  Keeper and 2nd Assistant went over to Sand Island. Light fast-- 30 sec. flash."
Newspaper archives of the time also mention lighthouse operations occasionally. For example, the Bayfield Press of May 7, 1964 reports an incident involving Coast Guard crewmen who were stranded on Sand Island while putting  the lighthouse into operation for the shipping season: "The U.S. Coast Guard launch commonly called "the 40 footer" took off from its Bayfield mooring for Sand Island to light the light there for the season shipping period.  Unable to approach Sand Island, a skiff was lowered and two men....  proceeded to Sand Island.  While attending their duties there, an already heavy squall became more severe... etc." 
Bobmack apis (talk) 23:24, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Deactivation

message: It is unclear why a photograph of the Michigan Island Light Station, with its two towers, is used to illustrate the Sand Island article.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USCGmichiganislandlight.JPG) At the very least, the photo should be clearly labeled to avoid confusing readers.
Bobmack apis (talk) 23:24, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So fix it. It is unclear why an editor who sees a wrong photograph leaves it there, rather then correct it. --Muhandes (talk) 07:21, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Illustrations

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