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Lookout Versus Lights: Some Sidelights on the Dark History of Navigation Lights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2005

John Wilde Crosbie
John Wilde Crosbie
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Email: crossbee@eircom.net
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Abstract

Before the middle of the 19th Century, sailing vessels under way at night did not set a light. This paper investigates the reasons for this practice and explains the development of navigation lights which culminated in the requirement for both steamships and sailing vessels to display lights at night.

Keywords

Navigation LightsCollision avoidance
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 1 - 7
Copyright
© 2006 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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