Characters and Famous Lights

A 6-page sourced companion on published characters — Fl, Fl (2), and a sector light — with the five stations used on lighthouses.nautical.im, including Longships and Fastnet’s range.

What’s inside:

- How to read the abbreviations in this pack

- The same five lights, in one desk

- A sector light: Longships

- Fastnet’s range, then and now

- Two pairings, read apart

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 6 (A4) / 6 (US Letter). Formats: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Most inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; the cover is dark, so print that in colour or skip it to save ink.

Every fact is written in our own words and checked on 15 November 2026 against Trinity House (Eddystone, Bishop Rock, Longships), the Commissioners of Irish Lights (Fastnet and Hook Head), the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article “Lighthouse”, and the U.S. National Park Service page “Moving the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse”; the sources are listed on the credits page.

Photographs are free-licensed from Wikimedia Commons (public domain, CC0 or CC BY only), resized with no other changes, except that the Fastnet plate is a National Library of Ireland photograph marked “no known copyright restrictions.” CC BY-SA photographs used on the website are not included in this pack. Where labelled diagrams appear, they are simplified teaching diagrams and are not to scale.

These are working aids to navigation. This pack is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Trinity House, the Commissioners of Irish Lights, the National Park Service, the National Library of Ireland, or Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

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Price: $3.99 USD.