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

Side Lights

Sea Terms

The red and green lights carried by vessels when under way at night. The green light is carried on the starboard side, and the red light on the port side, and they show respectively over ten points of the compass, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam, and are of such a character as to be visible at least two miles.

The log and the lead — patent log, log-reel, log-ship, log-line, compass, log-glass, deep-sea lead, lead-line, binnacle, side-light, fog-horn and speaking-trumpet
The log and the lead — patent log, log-reel, log-ship, log-line, compass, log-glass, deep-sea lead, lead-line, binnacle, side-light, fog-horn and speaking-trumpet
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