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Definition of Lightship
1. Noun. A ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable.
Definition of Lightship
1. n. A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners.
Definition of Lightship
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lightship
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightship
Literary usage of Lightship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1900)
"An outfit had been sent on board the Borkum lightship, but owing to the heavy
weather the ... This lightship is to have a vertical wire of 130 feet height. ..."
2. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1903)
"The Kentish Knock lightship is situated in the North Sea, NB of the mouth of the
Thames, 21 miles from the nearest points of the land, which are Margate and ..."
3. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"SIGNALLING TO PIPER ISLAND lightship. ANSWERED. BOATS LAND MEN FROM lightship.
PRELIMINARY REPORT WRITTEN AND SENT. SEVEN BLACKS OFFER TO TRADE FISH. ..."
4. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862)
"Suggestions for a New Form of Floating lightship, and a mode of estimating the
distances of Lighthouses. By ALFRED FRYER. Bead January loth, 1860. ..."
5. The British Merchant Service: Being a History of the British Mercantile by R. J. Cornewall-Jones (1898)
"By means of such diversity every precaution is taken to prevent the possibility
of one lightship being mistaken for another. As there is a strong family ..."
6. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"lightship. A vessel moored in the vicinity of dangerous shoals or headland, ...
The oldest Goodwin lightship dates from 1795. lightships are under the ..."
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