COLORS OF MARINE SIGNAL LIGHTS

TSVETA SIGNALNYKH OGNEI V MARSHOM FLOTA

Five color signals are used on ships: white, red, green, yellow and blue. The signals are made with an incandescent lamp combined with color filters. The required visibility distance of the signals is established by an international agreement. The aim of the paper is to make a selection of colors of the five-color system of signalling and establish the color characteristics of the signals, and also to find the range within which the color of the signal may vary from the established norm. It will then be necessary to establish what types of colored glass can best be used for a given signal.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Trans. of Gosudarstvennyi Opticheskii Institut. Trudy (USSR) v24 n144 p1-42 1955, by G. Belkov. Previously announced as TT-59 10187.
• Corporate Authors:

  National Research Council of Canada

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  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada  K1A 0R6
• Authors:
  • Rautyan, G N
  • Speranskaya, N I
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Pagination: 74 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Color; Navigation lights; Signal devices; Signaling
• Old TRIS Terms: Color dynamics; Navigational lights; Signaling equipment
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00084792
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Nrc-TT-782
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 19 1975 12:00AM