Danish and Swedish lightships serving to guarantee the safety of the Danish straits area sea routes 1820–1988
Danish and Swedish lightships serving to guarantee the safety of the Danish straits area sea routes 1820–1988

Summary/Abstract: The study presents results of several years of research into the issues of the creation, operationand specificity of the operation of Baltic lightvessels – useful at the time of the lack ofstationary lighthouses on shipping routes. The described ships were characteristic shippingmarks of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Germany at the turn of the 11th and 20thcenturies. The specificity of the units, also called lightships, required the use of researchmethods such as historical analysis and synthesis, induction and geographical method.The presented paper is only a part of the Scandinavian problems that arose during the operationof the specific entities described. A number of scientific papers have been delivered atboth national and international conferences. Archival materials related to the operation oflightships were acquired by the authors in the German, Swedish and Russian state archives.

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