Show the ase ull e of r search S searchlights earch lights have become indispensable to steamers of all classes and in military and naval operations by their use objects miles away can be revealed and illumined in the darkest night and their powerful beams of light can b be e thrown in any direction ebion one of the earliest applications of the search light in marine work was to vessels passing through suez canal formerly the passage could only be mide made in daylight and was keryte dious and costly naw now 0 the electric light is at the service of every ship as it e enters ai the ca canal and the journey journe is in in nearly every case pursued uninterruptedly A most excellent innovation has been made by the Suez canal authorities who have pronounced that it shall be obligatory after october I 1 next on all vessels passing through throng h the th e canal by light to employ an apparatus for dividing the light of the projector into two divergent rays approaching vessels may by this means travel right up to each other without their respective helmsmen being blinded the diverging apparatus which is to b be 3 used has been devised by one of the agents of the company |