The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Dead Lights

Sea Terms

Round thick glass windows in the side of the vessel. These panes are generally framed in brass, and work upon hinges, so as to obtain air below when circumstances permit of them being opened. Also heavy wooden shutters to fit in to the stern ports when the glass sashes are taken out.

Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
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