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What is a lightship?

What is a lightship? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A ship equipped with a very large lamp; it can be positioned to warn off other ships from dangerous locations, as a sort of portable lighthouse.
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The underwriter also carried out a post-occurrence inclining experiment to establish the vessel's lightship characteristics.
The boat was a lightship, essentially a lighthouse on a ship, a ship with a lighthouse stuck in the middle of it.
The first lightship, established in 1732 at Nore Sand in the Thames estuary, was rapidly followed by others.
It has the world's best-preserved wooden lightship with an exhibition showing how the crew lived and worked in those early days.
On October 26, 1973, the Nantucket lightship reported sustained winds of 115 knots, and seas of 45 feet.
The lightship was considerably damaged and would have to be removed from the station.

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