Reading the Lights - Lighthouse Signatures and Signal Lamps At night the coast speaks in flashes. Some are signatures - a lighthouse naming itself in light. Others are conversations: signal lamps spelling real Morse between ships. Signature flashes Every light has a published characteristic - the pattern of flashes and eclipses in its cycle. Match the pattern to the chart and a dark coastline becomes a labelled map. True Morse by lamp Navies kept flashing-light Morse long after radio: it is silent, directional, and hard to intercept. A trained signalman with a lamp could hold a conversation across dark water - the code, once again, outliving its replacements. Translate any text to Morse code, play it as sound and download the audio free at: https://morsecodeworks.com/