RE: lights on an aircraft carrier
In the last picture, the two red lights one over the other on the mast are the out of control lights.
Its a international rules of the road thing. Carrier has to run into the wind while conducting flight
operations. So by showing the two red lights, she's telling other ships that I won't be changing
course so don't get in my way. Day time it would be a flag hoist. They would also show this if
they were to have a steering gear breakdown.
There would also be the normal navigation lights, red to port, green to starboard. Can't see them
in the pictures because they are screened so that they can only be seen from bow to broadside or may
be slightly aft of broadside. Nothing to do with flight ops, rules of the road again.
Mike