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Old Posted May 21, 2014, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality View Post

I've never heard of a whistling buoy before.


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I've never heard of one either, but that's what Google's for, right?

According to www.merriam-webster.com, a whistling buoy is "a buoy that makes a whistling sound due to the action of waves and usually marks a shoal or channel entrance". A longer, more technical description can be found at chestofbooks.com.

USC has a picture which looks remarkably similar to the postcard. It's titled "Close-up view of the whistling buoy off Point Fermin, San Pedro, 1890".


USC Digital Library

The following article is from the San Francisco Call, Volume 102, Number 106, 14 September 1907. It mentions the Point Fermin whistling buoy and another at Point Vincent - I'm guessing they mean Point Vicente.


California Digital Newspaper Collection

Four maps showing the location of the Point Fermin lighted whistling buoy can be found here.
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