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Page 36 - ... is opposed to the green light of the other, or where a red light without a green light or a green light without a red light is seen ahead, or where both green and red lights are seen anywhere but ahead.
Page 34 - A vessel under one hundred aml 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 38 - When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore, the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately — namely: In the Day-time. First. A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute.
Page 35 - A vessel which is close-hauled on the port tack shall keep out of the way of a vessel which is close-hauled on the starboard tack.
Page 30 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on...
Page 29 - ... points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.
Page 36 - ART. 21. Where by any of these rules one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed. ART. 22. Every vessel which is directed by these rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other.
Page 30 - ... feet above or below such lights, if the length of the tow, measuring from the stern of the towing vessel to the stern of the last vessel towed, exceeds 600 feet.
Page 31 - ... mile, or a combined lantern showing a green light and a red light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on their respective sides. Such lantern shall be carried not less than 3 feet below the white light.
Page 37 - ... vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Marine Types, 1897 |
| Author | Chicago varnisa co |
| Publisher | Barta Press, 1897 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 96 pages |
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