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  2. List of lights - Wikipedia

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    In addition to information on lighted aids to navigation and sound signals in foreign waters, the NGA List of Lights provides information on storm signals, signal stations, racons, radiobeacons, and radio direction finder calibration stations located at or near lights. Publication number 117, Radio Navigational Aids, is the primary source for ...

  3. Harbour defence motor launch - Wikipedia

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    The harbour defence motor launch (HDML) was a 72 ft (22 m) long British-designed motor vessel used for harbour defence during World War II. Nearly 500 were built by numerous Allied countries during the war. The HDML was designed by W J Holt at the Admiralty in early 1939.

  4. Light characteristic - Wikipedia

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    An example of a complete light characteristic is "Gp Oc(3) W 10s 15m 10M". This indicates that the light is a group occulting light in which a group of three eclipses repeat every 10 seconds; the light is white; the light is 15 metres above the chart datum and the nominal range is 10 nautical miles.

  5. Motor launch (naval) - Wikipedia

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    A motor launch (ML) is a small military vessel in Royal Navy service. It was designed for harbour defence and submarine chasing. Similar vessels were used by the Royal Air Force for armed high-speed air-sea rescue. Some vessels for water police service are also known as motor launches. Motor launches were slower than motor torpedo boats and ...

  6. Lightvessel stations of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Light vessel no. 3, Lightvessel no. 68: Humber Humber Conservancy Board: Humber: Helwick (from 1937 until 1942) Maintained by Humber Conservancy Board. Kentish Knock Kentish Knock: North Sea: Light vessel no. 3, Lightship 2000, Jenni Baynton (from 1949 until 1953) Smiths Knoll Smiths Knoll 52°43′30″N 2°18′0″E [22] Trinity House: North Sea

  7. British Polar Engines - Wikipedia

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    The British Polar Engines Diesel Motors of the Oberon-class submarine HMS Ocelot. The engines charged the batteries for the silent electric propulsion of the ship. HMS Ocelot is now a museum ship in Chatham Dockyard. British Polar Engines manufactures, supplies and installs medium speed marine diesel engines and industrial generating sets ...

  8. List of lightvessels of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Light vessel no. 3 3: 1947: Philip and Son: Varne (from 1981), Channel, Outer Gabbard, Kentish Knock, Owers: Sank off the coast of Israel in 2000. [2] Scarweather 4: 1947: Philip and Son: 1989: In 1991 was sold to the Musée de Bateau in Douarnenez, France, for £40,000. She has been restored and renamed "Scarweather". [3] Light vessel no. 5 5: ...

  9. Admiralty number - Wikipedia

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    Admiralty number. 1 language. ... Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item ...