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Although no mention of this was made as being of any historic significance (though it may well be, is a navigational instrument to help vessels to find their way through a narrow channel which is surrounded by invisible, navigational hazards. What the helmsman of such a vessel does, is to line up the vertical beam of the two range triangles, exactly one above the other. Doing this, his vessel will stay in safe water.
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Eastern Europe
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