Hope Town Light
by Jack Pumphrey
Title
Hope Town Light
Artist
Jack Pumphrey
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
A 42 foot Hatteras Sportsfisher anchored in front of the Hope Town, Bahamas, features one of the last operational kerosene-fueled lighthouses in the world, this lighthouse was built in 1862 and became operational two years later, it is striped horizontally red and white, its light can be seen from 23 miles away, the Hope Town Lighthouse is one of only three Manual Lighthouses left in the World, i has a spring mechanism that has to be hand cranked every several hours to maintain the sequence of five white flashes every 15 seconds, the lamp burns kerosene oil with a wick and mantle, the light is then focused as it passes through the optics of a first order Fresnel lens which floats on a bed of mercury
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November 8th, 2014
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