| He is originally from Dun Laoghaire and is a keen ship modeller and embarking on making scale models of Irish lightships that he remembers seeing in Dun Laoghaire. |
| These three authorities, which today operate a total of 1,100 lighthouses, lightships, buoys, and beacons, still share the pooled user charges, known as the General Lighthouse Fund, for the whole of the British Isles. |
| The lightships would fire at regular intervals a star shell timed to explode at 6440 feet. |
| Lightships vary in size but can be up to 150 feet in length, 25 feet in beam, and 500 tons in displacement. |
| However within 2 months, British coastal authorities reported 16 ships for having ignored the lightships and buoys. |
| Lightships, by definition the focal point for marine traffic, were particularly suitable for sound signals as they were usually clear of the echoes of the land. |
