| The boat was a lightship, essentially a lighthouse on a ship, a ship with a lighthouse stuck in the middle of it. |
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| The last lightship in Scotland has been given a substantial lottery grant to prevent it from falling into dereliction. |
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| Like the lightship, the wreck rests in around 34m of water so it's another deep, dark dive. |
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| It has the world's best-preserved wooden lightship with an exhibition showing how the crew lived and worked in those early days. |
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| Ambrose, built in 1952-53, is the only lightship equipped with a modern catoptric type lens. |
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| The lightship was considerably damaged and would have to be removed from the station. |
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| The lightship has had uplighters added to its fore and aft masts with lighting units added around its deck and jetty. |
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| On October 26, 1973, the Nantucket lightship reported sustained winds of 115 knots, and seas of 45 feet. |
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| Britain's last lightship was towed from its position north-west of Guernsey to Harwich, ending an era of 157 years for the vessels. |
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| Suitable types might include sailing barges, historic tugboats, a wartime landing craft, steam motor yachts, or even a retired lightship, submarine, or hydrofoil. |
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| A computerized model was produced and an inclining experiment was carried out to establish the vessel's lightship characteristics. |
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| Then, following modifications, the barge did not undergo an inclining experiment to determine the new lightship characteristics. |
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| Later the pulsating lights of a lighthouse and a lightship played a part. |
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| For this assessment, the pleasure craft's lightship condition was established by referring to the scum line on the pontoons. |
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| The first lightship, established in 1732 at Nore Sand in the Thames estuary, was rapidly followed by others. |
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| Seven of the 11 crewmen aboard the lightship were killed, and the Olympic was later blamed for the accident. |
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| The lightship had just finished a stint warning shipping away from shallow outer banks off the Norfolk coast, and was being towed to South Shields for a refit. |
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| The LV18 ship in Harwich Harbour is owned by the charitable Pharos Trust, which is hoping to turn the former lightship into an educational and tourist attraction. |
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| The underwriter also carried out a post-occurrence inclining experiment to establish the vessel's lightship characteristics. |
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| Our first sign of the Seven Stones was the lightship, anchored between the reef and the northbound shipping channel, slightly to the north of our course. |
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| The lightship, itself, in 36 hours of gale force winds was thrown on its beam ends and shipped heavy seas notwithstanding that it was running its engine. |
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| The lightship data taken into account for the stability calculation shall be determined by means of a heeling test. |
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| Foghorns began a sinister concert, dominated by the siren on the lightship, which rang to indicate to the racers where the finish line might be found. |
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| A lightship marks the entrance to the Lynn Channel, the one safe channel from the North Sea to the south coast of the Wash. |
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| The first sea rescue after a distress call sent by radiotelegraph took place in 1899, when a lightship in the Dover Straits reported the grounding of Elbe, a steamship. |
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| After several more boat attempts, as it was fast becoming unsafe for the Manicouagan to remain on station, Captain Connell decided to weigh anchor and get as near as possible to the wreck in his lightship, under sail. |
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| An initial draught survey of the unloaded vessel showed level trim, a mean midship draught of 159 mm, a related lightship weight of 0.89 tonnes, and a mean pontoon freeboard of 298 mm. |
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| On May 15, 1934 in a heavy fog, the Olympic struck and sank the Nantucket lightship, a boat that was positioned to mark the shoals near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. |
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| These categories of weight are known collectively as lightship weight. |
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| The sum of deadweight and lightship weight is displacement that is, the weight that must be equaled by the weight of displaced water if the ship is to float. |
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| Moreover, because no internal inspection of the compartments had been done, the calculations were also based on a summary verification of the lightship displacement. |
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| Moreover, although the barge's lightship displacement was verified in the fall of 2005, this was done without an internal inspection of the compartments. |
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| The accompanying letter stated that discrepancies had been found in the original stability booklet with respect to the draughts and the longitudinal centre of gravity of the lightship condition used in the calculations. |
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| However, given that the vessel was in lightship condition and the tide was high, the top of the vessel's structure may have hit the cranes because of the flare of the hull aft. |
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| A second lightship and about 10 more buoys were added. |
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| The Number One tower soon found an alternative use as a replacement for the Nab Rock lightship, 40 miles away off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. |
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| On 17 March 1899 the East Goodwin lightship sent a signal on behalf of the merchant vessel Elbe which had run aground on Goodwin Sands. |
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| The North Carr lightship cost the lives of eight lifeboatmen in 1959 when they tried to rescue it from a storm. |
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| Just hours later, an unknown steamer sailed near the lightship along the track of Deering, and ignored all signals from the lightship. |
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| This new structure was itself replaced in 1883 with a lightship. |
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| Approaching the Mersey Bar Lightship at a quarter-to-seven she was hit by a severe north-westerly gale. |
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| Impulse presents Volume One of The Lightship Chronicles and is recommended for fans of hard science fiction and military sci-fi alike. |
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