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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 light·ship, Light-ship n. Naut. A vessel equipped like a lighthouse, carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable, to serve as a guide for mariners; as, the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 lightship
      n : a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a
          permanent lighthouse would be impracticable