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Show Something New for Lightship. Diamond Shoal lightship, No. 71, Capt Tawes, arrived in Baltimore from her station to be installed with a new electrical apparatus, which is to send a 13-inch beam of light from the ship's deck to the clouds, says the Baltimore American. Two clusters of lights now at the tops of the two masts are visible thirteen miles at sea, but it is expected expect-ed that the pillar of light rising to the skies may be seen thirty and forty miles at sea. This new marine signal is the device of Commander Albert Ross, inspector of the Fifth Lighthouse Light-house district, and will be put in operation op-eration Jan. 1. It is expected that the sky-piercing shaft of light will also be adopted at Fire Island, Sandy Hook and Nantucket Shoals lights. It is not proposed to abolish the present masthead mast-head beacons. As a guide to mariners coming in from sea the 13-inch electric elec-tric beam, reaching up in the dome of night, will be as far ahead of big electric beacons of the first order as the beacons were ahead of oil lamps. This innovation is not only of local j but world-wide interest |