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• Marine service
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• Aids to navigation -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
• Aids to navigation -- United States
• Beacons
• Buoys
• Electronics in navigation
• Fog-signals
• Lighthouses
• Nautical charts
• Radar in navigation

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• Sound-Signals (reprinted from the Annual Cyclopaedia; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)

• Sailing Directions for the Principal Ports on the East Coast of the United States of America (third edition; London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, and sold by J.D. Potter, 1882) (page images at Google)

• Aids to Navigation Regulations (CG-208; Washington: GPO, 1959), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aids to Navigation Regulations (CG-208; Washington: GPO, 1953), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aids to Marine Navigation of the United States (CG-193, revised 1949), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Significance of Aids to Marine Navigation (Washington: GPO, 1943), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Keepers of the Lights (New York: Greenberg, c1955), by Hans Christian Adamson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Compilation of Public Documents and Extracts From Reports and Papers Relating to Light-Houses, Light-Vessels, and Illuminating Apparatus, and to Beacons, Buoys and Fog Signals, 1789 to 1871 (Washington: GPO, 1871), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)

• Buoys in Waters of the United States (Washington: GPO, 1947), by United States Coast Guard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Buoys in Waters of the United States (Washington: GPO, 1942), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compilation of Public Documents and Extracts From Reports and Papers Relating to Light-Houses, Light-Vessels, and Illuminating Apparatus, and to Beacons, Buoys and Fog Signals, 1789 to 1871 (Washington: GPO, 1871), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)

• Keepers of the Lights (New York: Greenberg, c1955), by Hans Christian Adamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States Lighthouse Service: 1923 (Washington: GPO, 1923), ed. by John Sebastian Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentinels Along Our Coast (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Francis A. Collins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Compilation of Public Documents and Extracts From Reports and Papers Relating to Light-Houses, Light-Vessels, and Illuminating Apparatus, and to Beacons, Buoys and Fog Signals, 1789 to 1871 (Washington: GPO, 1871), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• Laws of States Ceding Jurisdiction Over and Relinquishing Title to Light-House Sites (Washington: GPO, 1871), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Laws of the United States Relating to the Establishment, Support, and Management of the Light-Houses, Light-Vessels, Monuments, Beacons, Spindles, Buoys, and Public Piers of the United States, from August 7, 1789, to March 3, 1855 (Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1855), ed. by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouse and Lightships of the United States (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by G. R. Putnam (multiple formats at Google)
• Organization and Duties of the Light-House Board, and Rules, Regulations and Instructions, of the Light-House Establishment of the United States, With the Laws and Circulars Relating Thereto (Washington: GPO, 1864), by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• Regulations for the United States Lighthouse Service, 1918 (Washington: GPO, 1918), by United States Lighthouse Service (multiple formats at Google)
• Report of the Officers Constituting the Light-House Board, Convened Under Instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, to Inquire Into the Condition of the Light-House Establishment of the United States, Under the Act of March 3, 1851 (Washington: Printed by A. Boyd Hamilton, 1852), by United States Light-House Board (multiple formats at Google)
• The United States Lighthouse Service: 1915 (Washington: GPO, 1916), ed. by John Sebastian Conway (multiple formats at Google)
• The Modern Light-House Service (Washington: GPO, 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)

• Lighthouse Service Bulletin (partial serial archives)
• Annual Report of the Commissioner of Lighthouses to the Secretary of Commerce, by United States Bureau of Light-Houses and United States. Bureau of Light-Houses -- Periodicals (partial serial archives)
• Annual Report, by United States Light-House Board (partial serial archives)

• Lightships of the United States Government: Reference Notes (Washington: Coast Guard Historian's Office, 1989), by Willard Flint (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Salt Book: Lobstering, Sea Moss Pudding, Stone Walls, Rum Running, Maple Syrup, Snowshoes, and Other Yankee Doings (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1977), ed. by Pamela Wood (page images at Salt Story Archive)

• Our Seamarks: A Plain Account of the Lighthouses, Lightships, Beacons, Buoys, and Fog-Signals Maintaned on Our Coasts for the Guidance of Mariners (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884), by E. Price Edwards (multiple formats at Google; US acces only)

• Coast Lighting in the Netherlands East Indies: Published by the "Scheepvaart" Service at Batavia on the Occasion of the International Exhibition at San Francisco in 1915 (Weltevreden: Filiaal Albrecht and Co., 1914), by Dutch East Indies Hoofdbureau van Scheepvaart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Proceedings of the OTA Seminar on the Discrete Address Beacon System (DABS) (OTA-BP-T-4; 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aberrations of Audibility of Fog Signals: A Paper Read Before the Philosophical Society of Washington, October 22, 1881 (Washington: Judd and Detweiler, 1882), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• The Lights and Tides of the World, Including a Description of All the Fog-Signals (fifth edition; London: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, 1904), by Henry D. Jenkins
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Summary of Researches in Sound, Conducted in the Service of the United States Light-House Board, by Joseph Henry, During the Years 1865 to 1877 (from the Snithsonian report for 1878; Washington: GPO, 1879), by Joseph Henry (multiple formats at Google)

• Ancient and Modern Light-Houses (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889), by D. P. Heap (multiple formats at Google)
• A Description and List of the Lighthouses of the World (London: R. H. Laurie, 1861), by Alexander George Findlay (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouse Construction and Illumination (London and New York: E. and F. N. Spon, 1881), by Thomas Stevenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lighthouses and Lightships: A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at Google)
• The Lights and Tides of the World, Including a Description of All the Fog-Signals (fifth edition; London: Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, 1904), by Henry D. Jenkins
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Lightships and Lighthouses (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Frederick A. Talbot (multiple formats at Google)
• The Modern Light-House Service (Washington: GPO, 1889), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Seamarks: A Plain Account of the Lighthouses, Lightships, Beacons, Buoys, and Fog-Signals Maintaned on Our Coasts for the Guidance of Mariners (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1884), by E. Price Edwards (multiple formats at Google; US acces only)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction, and Illumination of Lighthouses (London: J. Weale, 1850), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships, Descriptive and Historical (London et al.: T. Nelson and Co., 1891), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse, With Notes on the Illumination of Lighthouses (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black; London: Longman and Co., 1848), by Alan Stevenson (multiple formats at Google)
• Lighthouses: Their History and Romance (New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell Co.; London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1895), by William John Hardy
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, With an Historical Introduction and Sequel (London: J. W. Parker, 1844) (multiple formats at Google)
• Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie; Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Die Italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik (in German and Italian; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909), by Konrad Kretschmer
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Nautical Charts (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1908), by G. R. Putnam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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