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Navy Testing Ship to Ship Texting with Signal Lamps

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Rick SpilmanJuly 24, 2017

In 1867, Royal Navy Captain, and later Admiral, Philip Colomb, worked out a system to send signals by a code of dots and dashed using signal lamps. Since then, navies around the world have used only slightly improved versions of signal lamps … Continue reading →

Posted in Current | Tagged Morse code, signal lamps, US Navy
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