Definitionn. a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
Last update: August 23, 2015
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In December 1898 communication was established by the Marconi method between the East Goodwin lightship and the South Foreland lighthouse; and this installation was maintained for upwards of a year, during which it was the means of saving both life and property. [Please select]
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Here, I am not walking out to the Kish lightship, am I. [Please select]
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And far on Kish bank the anchored lightship twinkled, winked at Mr Bloom. [Please select]
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A few minutes later, a boat was seen to push off from the sloop and make for the lightship. [Please select]
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Far beyond the lightship a liner was riding the waves with serene contempt, making for the river's mouth and Tilbury Dock. [Please select]
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They made for the Girdler lightship, and on the Girdler Sands they found the Fusilier. [Please select]
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A few seconds carried them out of sight, and thus, as regards the Gull Lightship, the drama ended. [Please select]
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A shot was fired, and a rocket sent up by the lightship. [Please select]
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It must not be supposed, from what has been said, that the Gull Lightship was the only vessel of the kind that existed at that time. [Please select]
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The first were the three fixed lights of the lightship that marked the North sandhead; the latter was the fixed light that guarded the South sandhead. [Please select]
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