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steaming lights

The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | 224 words | Copyright

steaming lights, the compulsory white navigation lights carried on the masts of all vessels under way at sea by night by which the presence, and an indication of their course, is made known to other vessels in the vicinity.

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