Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00967:reg:1965:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00967
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1965 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 37991–39108

Cape Wickham, the Commissioners wish to guard themselves from affording the public any reasonable supposition that this light can be at all considered in a position of a great highway light for the navigation of Bass Strait; and the light at Cape Wickham can only be regarded as a beacon warning navigators of danger, rather than a leading light to a great thoroughfare."
      (b)    The light be given a distinctive character, by inserting an occulting screen, actuated by clockwork mechanisms (to be wound every sixteen hours), thus converting the light from fixed to occulting. Light characteristic – occulting every five seconds; light, two and a-half seconds; eclipse, two and a-half seconds. Present tower and optic to be used.
      (c)    The power of the light be increased from 7,500 to 35,000 c.p., and economy effected in the consumption of oil by installing an 85 mm incandescent mantle; illuminant, vaporised kerosene.

-          Brewis Report, 1912
Alterations to the light
Listed below is the chronology of alterations to the Cape Wickham Lighthouse lens and light source.
Date         Alterations