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

Range Light

Sea Terms

The light carried on the after-part of steam vessels, elevated above the deck, and forming with the stem light the line of the keel. Also two lights placed on shore in such situations that when they are in line with one another, as seen from a vessel, the latter may know that she is in the channel.

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