Instructions to Light Keepers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Instructions to Light Keepers, credited to United States Lighthouse Board, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Instructions to Light Keepers by United States Lighthouse Board. Read in English by Maria Kasper. "Office of the Light-House Board, Washington, D.C. July 1, 1881. The following Instructions are published for the guidance of light-keepers. They are required to read them carefully and attentively, and to refer to them whenever they are any doubt in regard to their duties or the manner of performing them. Each keeper and assistant keeper will be furnished with a copy, to be kept and used at the light-stations where they are employed; to be handed over to their successors when they are relieved or discharged or left at the light-stations in case there should be no successors. By order of the Light-House Board." (from introductory notice to book)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Instructions to Light Keepers
• Author credits: United States Lighthouse Board
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 1:56:36

Catalogue topics

• lighthouses
• maritime history
• reference
• manual

Track guide

1. 01 - General Instructions to All Light Keepers — 15:02
2. 02 - Care of Lights and Their Appurtenances — 12:29
3. 03 - Funck Lard-Oil Float-Lamp - Funck Mineral-Oil Float-Lamp - Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth-Order Lights — 19:29
4. 04 - Instructions to Keepers of Light-Ships — 14:43
5. 05 - Use and Management of Fog Signals — 18:39
6. 06 - Siren - Steam-Whistle - Stevens Fog-Bell - Andersons Hand Fog-Signal — 16:15
7. 07 - Instructions for Painting - Recipes - Allowances of Provisions — 19:58

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