another term for lightship
Example sentencesExamples
- The latest station has been recreated to celebrate the anniversary aboard a former light vessel.
- Steamships first began to use the port in the 1830s, but sail was still being used on light vessels of 80 to 100 tons.
- They may well be called to a casualty if a light goes out on a buoy or a light vessel.
- Among the more unusual finds on his surveys have been the wreck of a Victorian Trinity House light vessel in the North Sea, and the wrecks of German submarines which had been scuttled during World War II.