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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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watch buoy, a
buoy moored in the vicinity of
lightships, in the days when they were manned, so that those aboard could check that the lightship was not
dragging.
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Lightships Showed the Way
Magazine article from: Sea Power; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...s coastlines lightships. With the decommissioning...years of American lightship history came...the nation's lightships. Lightship crews had to...Vineland Sound Lightship #73 and its...total of five lightships, and there were...
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Lightship Telecom Introduces Lightship Advantage: Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Access Service.
Business Wire; 9/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...Money With "ATM To The Edge" Service Lightship Telecom, a provider of high speed Internet...England businesses, has introduced "Lightship Advantage," a breakthrough new access...dedicated to voice or Internet traffic. Lightship Advantage leverages all available channels...
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Lightship Telecom Expands To Rhode Island; Increase in New England's Most-Extensive Competitive Voice & Data Business Network.
Business Wire; 4/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004 Lightship Telecom, an integrated communications...company's expansion to Rhode Island. Lightship's communications services are now available...profit and other organizations. The Lightship Telecom network covers more of New England...
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Lightship Telecom Expands Into Eastern Mass; Launches Greater Boston Network Facilities & Sales/Support Office.
Business Wire; 12/16/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002 Lightship Telecom(R), a provider of high...communications network within Massachusetts. Lightship has turned-up additional network facilities covering the greater Boston area. Lightship also announced the opening of a sales...
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Lightship Telecom Invests Over $1 Million in Vermont Voice & Data Network; New services & technology for Vermont business.
Business Wire; 5/25/2004; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004 Lightship Telecom, an integrated communications...Effective Sunday, May 23, 2004, Lightship implemented the Nortel DMS-100, a...dollars to the communications network of Lightship Telecom. Lightship has built the broadest...
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Lightship Telecom Doubles Coverage In New England; 'On-Net' Lightship Service Available To Vast Majority of Businesses.
Business Wire; 5/19/2003; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2003 Lightship Telecom(R), a provider of high...services. The expansion complements Lightship's existing facilities-based network...Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine. Lightship added twenty-six (26) network sites...
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The Lightship Group Changes the Face of Outdoor Advertising With Revolutionary New Airship Design.
Business Wire; 5/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...building the prototype Lightship A-50 in 1988. Virgin Lightships Inc., a subsidiary...first of three A-60+ Lightships. The Lightship Group was formed in...partnership between Virgin Lightships and Lightship America, operating...
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Lightship Announces Key Executive Appointments; Names EVP of Marketing & Chief Financial Officer.
Business Wire; 10/27/2003; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2003 Lightship Telecom, an integrated communications...Today's announcement is a result of Lightship's continued success in the New England...Marketing & Customer Relations for Lightship Telecom. At Lightship, Mr. Gawlick...
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Lightship Telecom Selects EUR Systems' Advantacs Inter-Carrier Billing Solution; Voice & Data Service Provider Simplifies Billing to Benefit Customers & the Enterprise.
Business Wire; 2/17/2003; 700+ words
; ...2003 EUR Systems announced Monday that Lightship Telecom, a provider of high-speed...s Inter-Carrier Billing Solution. Lightship's decision to run Advantacs was based...solution and the competitive advantages Lightship will gain by enhancing control of its...
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Lightship Telecom Appoints Two Senior Executives.
Business Wire; 3/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...Office As part of its ongoing expansion, Lightship Telecom(R), a provider of high...President, Mr. Abbene is responsible for Lightship's Customer Service group and the dedicated...and product support. Prior to joining Lightship, Mr. Abbene held senior management...
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lightship
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
lightship moored vessel bearing lights...hazards to navigation. Lightships are generally stationed...consistent pressures. The first lightship in the United States was...Afterward, for a time, lightships proliferated; but their...
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Brandauer, Klaus Maria
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Gold (Roth) (as Alek Neuman); The Lightship (Skolimowski) (as Capt. Miller...Hanussen ). His American films include The Lightship, in which he is an ex-German naval...inflexible code. Thus, the commander of the lightship is bound by his responsibility to his...
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watch buoy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
watch buoy, a buoy moored in the vicinity of lightships , in the days when they were manned, so that those aboard could check that the lightship was not dragging .
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Skolimowski, Jerzy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...1982; Special Prize, Venice Film Festival, 1985, for The Lightship. Films as Director: 1960 Oko wykol (L'Oeil Torve...sc, co-pr) 1984 Success Is the Best Revenge 1985 The Lightship 1989 Torrents of Spring (+ sc) 1991 Ferdydurke (+ sc...
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abreast
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...or place, being directly opposite to the ship, mark, or place. Thus when a vessel is abreast, say, a lightship , then the lightship is abeam of it. Line abreast , a naval fleet formation in which ships steam in position abeam of the flagship...
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