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Port and Starboard Lights
Pre electricity were there green and red port and starboard lights? e.g during the Battle of Trafalgar were the port and starboard 'lit up' at night and if so how?
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Before electricity, oil lamps were used on ships. There are heaps of them still around and you can buy them, usually in antique shops. They're also far more reliable than electric lamps, and were used for rear lights on trains until very recently.
But port and starboard lights were unknown in Nelson's time, and weren't introduced until the advent of steam vessels. More here.
But port and starboard lights were unknown in Nelson's time, and weren't introduced until the advent of steam vessels. More here.
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