Sector light Authorities). For example, the United States uses a signalling stereotype which is the opposite of Europe. In USA, the red light indicates the starboard side of the channel for harbour bound vessels, while the green light indicates the port side of the same channel. An expression to remind of this is "red right returning". An example of a sector light is the light of the Fisgard Lighthouse in British Columbia. The lighthouse as built to guide ships through the entrance of Esquimalt harbour. The white sector is an isophase light of 2s from 322° to 195°. If the ship sees
Port au Prince (1790 ship) Port au Prince (1790 ship) Port au Prince was built in France in 1790. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1793 off Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her original name is currently unknown, but her new owners named her for her place of capture. She became a letter of marque, slave ship, and privateer "cum" whaler. In 1806 she anchored at a Tongan island where the local inhabitants massacred half her crew and then scuttled her. "Port au Prince"s origins are obscure. Although she appears to have been pierced for a large number of guns, perusal of a compendium of French naval