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                <text>&lt;p&gt;This navigation tool is on loan to BLMA from the Collection of Captain Christopher Karentz.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;This navigation tool was used to take bearings and sunlines.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;It is on loan to BLMA from the Collection of Captain Christopher Karentz.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;This Radio Direction Finder (RDF) is typical of those used in vessels for navigation purposes by determining the bearing of radio signals transmitting from shore stations and lightships. The radio beacon from the Brenton Reef lightship and later the Brenton tower located offshore transmitted the signal "B" in Morse code. When the tower was discontinued in 1989 the beacon was relocated on Beavertail using the antenna still standing behind the light station buildings.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;The RDF was vital in fog and low visibility providing accurate directional homing information to the navigator and providing a navigation "fix" by taking cross bearings from two or more stations. The user would tune the RDF to the beacon or the station's transmitting frequency and rotate the built-in antenna to a "null" (minimum signal) on the meter. He would then correct the relative bearing from his vessel's heading and compass course to magnetic or true bearing and use the result to draw a bearing line on his chart.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;This RDF was donated to BLMA by Skip Hurd and used aboard his sailboat, "&lt;em&gt;Eleanor M&lt;/em&gt;" for over 20 years.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;Marina Radio Activated Sound Signal (MRASS) installed in fog-prone locations enables vessels equipped with VHF radio to activate the fog signal located at the lighthouse or other fixed location. The Marina keys his "push to talk" button on Channel 81A or 83A five times after which the fog signal will sound for 45 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;This unit is the receiver that was placed at the fog signal location and activated the fog signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;MRASS has been installed at Beavertail.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;The brass dustpan was an essential tool used to keep the lighthouse "spot clean". Many were marked with "&lt;em&gt;U.S. Light House Service&lt;/em&gt;".&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;May Chrietzbert was born in the Warwick Neck lighthouse in 1913, shortly after her father, Jorgen Bakken, became keeper. She and her sister, now Madeline Wright, grew up near the old lighthouse. In 1932, erosion threatened to undermine the building. It was tom down and replaced by a metal cylinder light.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It was heartbreaking to have the old lighthouse go. Its walls were 22 inches thick at the base, yet it was hardly 30 feet tall. From its commanding position overlooking the bay, it was one of the most familiar landmarks along the shore. Inside and out it was an immaculate white, having been kept that way even up to its last hours. The lens—it was beautiful, like diamonds! — was transferred to the new tower in one day. The light continued its operation that night as it had for 106 years.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Joseph Bakken and Family. ca 1915. baby May is on her mother's knee, and Madeline is standing.&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;There were many woman lighthouse keepers in RI Lighthouses&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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              <text>Beavertail Lighthouse&#13;
Linda Levesque also grew up at Beavertail, one of eleven children. Her father, Domenic Turillo, was keeper there in the 1950s and 1960s&#13;
One thing my mother didn't like very much was the inspections the Coast Guard had, white glove, you know. My father would go hananas, he would be waxing and everything, and 'don't put your hands over there!' And we had to be sitting like little angels. You could eat off the floors, even in the engine room.&#13;
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Even though there were keepers there before us, I still consider that lighthouse ours because we were there for the longest time, and I just have a special feeling for it. Now I'm glad they're maintaining it becaue after the keepers were taken off you'd go down, the place looked so run down and it wasn't being whitewashed, and I'm saying, 'Why isn't somebody doing something?' And when I heard they were thinking of selling the government land near the lighouse I wrote and I said, 'You know, you don't get rid of this, I mean they're crazy!' So I'm gld it worked out.&#13;
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Dominic Turillo below the fog horn at Beavertail, ca 1950.</text>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One thing my mother didn't like very much was the inspections the Coast Guard had. My father would go bananas. he would be waxing everything, and 'don't put your hands over there'. And we had to be sitting like little angels. You could eat off the floors, even in the engine room.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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                <text>&lt;p&gt;During the Civil War. Peter Lee applied to become keeper in order to free a younger man to enlist in the Union Army. His daughter Ella was nine at the time, the third of six children. In later years Ella liked to tell stories of those days to her granddaughter. Margaret Lee Causey, of Newport.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p class="italic"&gt;In summer we always had visitors, and it was the duty of the keeper to show them the light. The lens was very beautiful French crystal and it was quite something to see. highly polished and well taken care of, and the brass, too. I can remember my grandfather saying. ‘We will polish the brass'—and the 'we' was me!&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p class="italic"&gt;Grandfather was in the Norwegian merchant marine and was wrecked three times, decided he'd had enough and came to the United States. He had a friend in the Lighthouse Service on Staten Island who got him a job lighting the lamps at Hell's Gate in New York. Next he was assistant keeper at Sakonnet Point, then Borden Flats in Fall River, and finally Prudence Island. A typical day was like this: First, you were up before S o'clock. When daylight came you extinguished the light, trimmed the wick, got every thing ready for the next night, took care of the tower, polished the lens, and put the cover on the light. Then you went about your duties of painting, maintaining, and general chores. Just like on the farm, your work is never done. Then we’d do what we had on the side, pull a lobster pot or some trawling. Toward evening you'd just reverse what you did in the morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p class="italic"&gt;And if you had a fog coming... .This I could never understand, my grandfalher could feel if the fog was going to set in at maybe 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, and in that case he’d retire very early. He would set an alarm, but nine times out of ten he would be up before the alarm went off. Then the bell would start; the sound was very nice, much better than the hooter we have now.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;p&gt;The lens can be open to allow visitors to see inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Touching the glass prisms is prohibited&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notes on the Fresnel Lens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;This type of lens was developed in 1823 by a Frenchman named Augustin Fresnel(pronounced frey - NEL).The arrangement of the prisms bends the light rays thus making the beam more intense and visible further out to sea.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Typical lenses in use before the Fresnel lens lost nearly 97 % of the light from a flame, and a flame with a reflector behind it still lost about 83 % of its light.The Fresnel lens was able to capture all but about 17 % of its light.At one time all the lighthouses in America were equipped with a Fresnel lens.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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