The Nantucket Harbor Range Lights are range lights that were built in 1908 to guide vessels through the narrow channel to Nantucket Harbor. They replaced an older arrangement involving the Nantucket Beacon and the Brant Point Light , which became unusable when the latter was replaced with a new tower.
2-582: They display red and white vertical striped daymarks , type KRW, one of the twelve combinations used by the Coast Guard. It is not known why the official USCG name of the front light, Nantucket Reef Range Front Light includes the word "reef". This article relating to a United States lighthouse is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Daymark A daymark is a navigational aid for sailors and pilots , distinctively marked to maximize its visibility in daylight . The word
4-464: Is also used in a more specific, technical sense to refer to a signboard or daytime identifier that is attached to a day beacon or other aid to navigation. In that sense, a daymark conveys to the mariner during daylight hours the same significance as the aid's light or reflector does at night. Standard signboard shapes are square, triangular, and rectangular, while the standard colours are red, green, orange, yellow, and black. Chart symbols used by
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