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Actually there are three wee articles on this subject, so I suggested a merger. If noone objects until August, I'll combine the articles.
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Leading lights are often confused with
lighthouses, as they are often built to look like lighthouse structures. In contrast to lighthouses which warn offshore navigators of dangers upon landfall and can be used for offshore navigation, leading lights assist the inshore navigation of
ships, vessels and other watercraft into safe channels, lanes, or port, and
harbour entrances.
because it creates an artificial and incorrect distinction. Lighthouses are used both offshore and in harbors and rivers. On entering the
Kennebec River, for example, the sequence is
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I question the statement in the second sentence of the paragraph:
The first set of range lights in the United States were privately established by subscription at Newburyport Harbor in Massachusetts in 1788. The technology was not used in Europe until 1837, where the lights became known as leading lights.
In England, in the year 1763, two pairs of leading lights were established to mark the approach to the Port of Liverpool. These were the Sea Lights, at Leasowe, and the Lake Lights, at Hoylake.[1] I do not claim that these were the first leading lights in Europe, only that the 1837 date is incorrect.
^“Lighthouses of Liverpool Bay”, by John and Diane Robinson, The History Press, 2007