The universal code of signals for the mercantile marine of all nations, with a list of yachts, and a selection of sentences adapted for convoys, and systems of geometrical, night & fog signals, by G.B. Richardson, Volume 7 |
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9 mil Agnes Alice anchor Anna Annie Auguste Belle best seen boats Cape cargo Carl Caroline Castle Catharina Catherine Cezard Charles Charlotte City Clara colours DISTINGUISHING FLAG Eagle Edward Eliza Elizabeth Ellen Emily Emma Fanny Figueirense Floating furl sails future Editions unless George Harbour Helen Henry hoisted where best Holyhead Isabella Island Isle James Jane Jessie Johanna John Joseph Lady Lampedo Lass List of Ports Liverpool Lizzie Lord Louise Maid Margaret Maria Mary Mast-head Mimbelli night North Number Numeral Flags Ocean Packet Point Prince Queen RENDEZVOUS FLAG River Robert Rock Royal sail Saint Sarah sc.st Scott screw propeller SECOND DISTINGUISHING PENDANT Send ship Shoal shore signal Smith Sophia specially requested otherwise Star struck tack THIRD DISTINGUISHING PENDANT Thomas Thompson vessel Vocabulary w. f. 9 mil Westerwick William wind yawl
Popular passages
Page 15 - ... use; and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so, that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side, nor, if practicable, more than two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.
Page 15 - Art. 11. If two sailing ships are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall be put to port, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 14 - ... (c.) On the port side, a red light, so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles.
Page 15 - Sailing pilot vessels shall not carry the lights required for other sailing vessels, but shall carry a white light at the mast-head, visible all round the horizon, — and shall also exhibit a flare-up light every fifteen minutes.
Page 16 - ... the ship with the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the ship with the wind on the starboard side, except in the case in which the...
Page 15 - Whenever, as in the case of small vessels during bad weather, the green and red lights cannot be fixed, these lights shall be kept on deck on their respective sides of the vessel ready for instant exhibition, and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and...
Page 15 - Side Lights required for other Vessels ; but shall, if they do not carry such Lights, carry a Lantern having a Green Slide on the one Side, and a Red Slide on the other Side ; and on the Approach of or to other Vessels, such Lantern shall be exhibited in sufficient Time to prevent Collision, so that the Green Light shall not be seen on the Port Side, nor the Red Light on the Starboard Side.
Page 16 - Art. 13. If two ships under steam are meeting end on or nearly end on so as to involve risk of collision, the helms of both shall be put to port, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 14 - ... (d) The said green and red side lights shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least three feet forward from the light, so as to prevent these lights from being seen across the bow. (e) A steam vessel when under way may carry an additional white light similar in construction to the light mentioned in subdivision (a).