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2. Leading lights - Wikipedia

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   Leading lights, also known as range lights in the United States, are a pair of light beacons used in navigation [2] to indicate a safe passage for vessels entering a shallow or dangerous channel; they may also be used for position fixing. At night, the lights are a form of leading line that can be used for safe navigation. The beacons consist ...

3. Broad Sound Channel Inner Range Lights - Wikipedia

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   Unsurprisingly, with four lights in such a small area they were often confused with one another. By 1913 it was decided that the Spectacle Island range was unneeded, and notice was given of its discontinuance. This was met by complaints from shipping interests who mistakenly believed that the Broad Sound range was being removed. [2]

4. Doubling Point Range Lights - Wikipedia

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   The range lights are set on the north side of the second turn; the first is marked by the Doubling Point Light. The range lights are oriented so that they are in alignment when seen from the main channel to the south. The light station consists of two octagonal wood frame towers, a keeper's house, and an oil house.

5. North Point Range Lights - Wikipedia

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   North Point Range Lights ; Location: Off Fort Howard (North Point) on the north shore of the Patapsco River: Coordinates (west light) (east light): Tower; Foundation: stone: Construction: stone: Height: 34 feet (10 m) (front) 40 feet (12 m) (rear): Shape: conical towers: Light; First lit: 1822: Deactivated: 1873: Lens: sixth-order Fresnel lens: Characteristic: Fixed white: The North Point ...

6. Haig Point Range Lights - Wikipedia

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   The other range lights were the Bloody Point Range Lights on the south end of the island. Land was procured in 1872 at Haig's Point for the first set. The Haig Point range lights were lit in 1873. [3] [4] Although most sources indicate that the range lights were deactivated in 1924, [3] [4] [5] others indicate that it was as early as 1922, [6 ...

7. Bloody Point Range Lights - Wikipedia

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   In 1871, the U.S. Congress authorized two sets of range lights on Daufuskie Island. The other range lights were the Haig Point Range Lights on the northern end of the island. In 1882, 6.72 acres (2.72 ha) was purchased for the Bloody Point lights. [2] [3] The Front Range Light was a red, kerosene lamp placed in a gable-fronted dormer window of ...