British coasts, and sixteen on lightships moored in position where a guiding signal is of the greatest service to passing navigation.
Tyndall proposes to call it the Collinson rocket, and suggests that it might be used in lighthouses and lightships as a signal by naval vessels.
Some of the lighthouses and lightships on our coasts already have these submarine bells in addition to their lights, and in bad weather the bells send out their messages to warn ships of their proximity to a danger point.
England," and began a system of lights on the shores, of which the present chain of lighthouses and lightships is the outcome.
Its value to shipping, however, had already been superseded by the light and fog signal station on the Delaware Breakwater and by the lightships and lighted buoys marking the entrance to Delaware Bay.
By the latter part of April 1861, practically all lights were extinguished, lightships removed, and other aids removed or destroyed from the Chesapeake to the Rio Grande, with the exception of some of the lights on the Florida coast and reefs.
At one time lightships used to be without any kind of propelling machinery, and sometimes they were driven ashore.
When we rounded the Cork lightships the other three were, I fancy, about a mile or more astern of us.
The two others to leeward funked the bank, and tacked also; we were then safe out of the harbour into the 'rolling ground' outside, and spanking before a very strong wind towards the Cork lightships some miles dead to leeward.
In his digest of the observations at lighthouses and lightships Mr Eagle Clarke shows that spells of genial weather are favourable and that during these spells migration is even flowing and continuous (15).
The observations atlightships and lighthouses are mostly made when untoward circumstances bring the birds within range of vision, and on dark and foggy nights cause them to strike the light in great numbers.
Vessels under way, by keen look-out and ready helm, can sight and avoid the drifting spheres, but the lightships have no power to steer clear.
Holding station in waters that are patrolled and, in part, protected, the Trinity men who form the crews of the lightships have readjusted their manning.
Two lightships on the east coast were blown up by mines; one, off the coast of Ireland, was deliberately torpedoed.
Seaward the channel buoys and the nearer lightships are sharply distinct, cutting the distant sea-line like the topmast spars of ships hull down.
He recognized that the value of the lightships in establishing a definite position was an asset to him.
Boom defences and examination areas exist, channels are closed or obstructed; certain of the lightships or floating marks may be withdrawn on short warning.
Lightships run considerable risk, for besides being exposed at all times to all the storms that rage on our shores, they are sometimes run into by ships in foggy weather.
Some lightships have two masts, and some three, with a ball and a lantern on each.
About a quarter past eight one wintry night, a telegram was received at Ramsgate to say that the lightshipswest of Margate were sending up rockets and firing guns.
Now suppose a gun was fired at this minute from any of the lightships to tell us that assistance was needed you would see men running from every quarter, all eager for a place.
On the charts of the North Sea were clearly shown not only the depths in fathoms and the positions of newly-placed buoys and lightships for the guidance of pilots, but also the areas which the British Admiralty had sown with defensive mines.
That's why they have altered the positions of the lightships and buoys.
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