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Lightship

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A vessel equipped like a lighthouse carrying at the masthead a brilliant light and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable to serve as a guide for mariners as the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica

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