Annual Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of Commerce and LaborU.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - Merchant marine |
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Page 241 - ... points on each bow, and a green light and a red light over an arc of the horizon from two points on each bow to two points abaft the beam on the starboard and port sides respectively...
Page 241 - Vessels, when engaged in trawling, by which is meant the dragging of an apparatus along the bottom of the sea — 1.
Page 241 - Vessels and boats, except open boats as defined in subdivision (a), when fishing with drift nets, shall, so long as the nets are wholly or partly in the water, carry two white lights where they can best be seen. Such lights shall be placed...
Page 102 - Government of the foreign country in which such port is situated, and shall, upon the passage of this act, and from time to time thereafter, as often as it may become necessary by reason of changes in the laws of the foreign countries above mentioned, indicate, by proclamation, the ports to which such suspension shall apply, and the rate or rates of tonnage duty, if any, to be collected under such suspension...
Page 241 - ... lights. Should they, however, not carry it, they shall show in the same position (in the direction of the net or gear) a white...
Page 241 - A vessel under one hundred and fifty feet in length when at anchor shall carry forward, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, a white light, in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.
Page 102 - ... of such country or on the cargoes of such vessels ; but this proviso shall not be held to be inconsistent with the special regulation by foreign countries of duties and other charges on their own vessels, and the cargoes thereof, engaged in their coasting trade, or with the existence between such countries and other States of reciprocal stipulations founded on special conditions and equivalents, and thus not within the treatment of American vessels under the most favored nation clause in treaties...
Page 242 - ... respectively, at intervals of not more than one minute make a blast; if steam vessels, with the whistle or siren, and if sailing vessels, with the foghorn, each blast to be followed by ringing the bell.
Page 241 - Fishing vessels and fishing boats, when under way and when not required by this article to carry or show the lights hereinafter specified, shall carry or show the lights prescribed for vessels of their tonnage under way. (a) Open boats, by which...
Page 242 - Fishing vessels and fishing boats may at any time use a flare-up light in addition to the lights which they are by this article required to carry and show, and they may also use working lights.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Annual Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor |
| Author | United States. Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Navigation |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Apr 11, 2008 |
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