AUTOMATIC LIGHTSHIPS, half the size of the ordinary ones, have been built for the English coast. They have lights which burn, unattended, for two months. There will be no men aboard these vessels to be imperilled by Nazi bombs and murderous machine-gun attacks. They are really buoys on a grand scale.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 3
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51AUTOMATIC LIGHTSHIPS, half the size of the ordinary ones, have been built for the English coast. They have lights which burn, unattended, for two months. There will be no men aboard these vessels to be imperilled by Nazi bombs and murderous machine-gun attacks. They are really buoys on a grand scale. Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 3
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