2 Lanterns: 2 lights Blazing Against The Dark.
Inside a ship, lamps were mounted on gimbals so they could pivot and stay horizontal in rolling seas. The best lamps were made of copper and pewter, but many were made of brass, tin, or tin-plated iron. Outside, poop lanterns, or lanthorns, adorned a ship’s stern. While these lamps were often painted on their exteriors, they remained unfinished near the flame, the better to reflect their flickering flames into what must have seemed to be an infinite expanse of darkness.
After the Civil War, kerosene largely replaced whale oil in lamps. Eventually, color-coded running lights (green on starboard, red on port) were installed, aiding navigation in harbors and at sea.
2 Lanterns: 2 lights Blazing. We Are On A Ship.
2 Places. Watching The Waters….