 | 1886 - 850 pages
...method of signalling. By the present system, red and green lights are placed on each side of the vessel, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side, with a board shutting off each light from the opposite side. An officer seeing a coloured light at... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 604 pages
...strictly required between sunset and sunrise, to display a bright white light on the foremast head, f CJ1 哢uSj %rQ \ }b/&xd / S K ( Z0 ) <&5 r 4 / the side lights having screens of about three feet long, to prevent them from being seen across the... | |
 | Medicine - 1856 - 460 pages
...all British steamers are to show, "between sunset and sunrise, a white light at the foremast head, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side." When, then, one vessel is crossing another's bows, the foremast light goes for nothing, and the steersman... | |
 | Great Britain. Admiralty - 1858 - 36 pages
...sailing-vessels, when under way or Lights being towed, shall between sun-set and sun-rise exhibit а green light on the starboard side, and a red light...shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles, and shall show an uniform and... | |
 | 1858 - 538 pages
...Bell, as ordered for Sailing Ships. SAILING VESSELS. 1.— All Sea-going Sailing Vessels when under-way or being towed, shall, between sunset and sunrise...Light on the Starboard side and a Red Light on the Tort side of the vessel, and such Lights shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night,... | |
 | Reed Thomas and co, ltd, Thomas REED (of Sunderland.) - Merchant marine - 1859 - 106 pages
...a Fog Horn or Bell, as ordered for Sailing Ships. SAILING VESSELS. 1. All Sea-going Sailing Vessels when under way or being towed shall, between sunset...Starboard Side and a Red Light on the Port Side of the G Vessel, and such Lights shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere,... | |
 | Commerce - 1859 - 780 pages
...LIGHTS. 1. All sail vessels at sea under way with sails, or being towed, carry from suneet to sunrise, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side of the vessel. These lights should be visible in clear weather a distance of at least two miles, and should throw... | |
 | Science - 1859 - 328 pages
...sea-going vessels, when under way, or being towed, shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a grcen light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side of the vessel. 2. The coloured lights shall be fixed wherever it is practicable, so as to exhibit them, and shall... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1859 - 804 pages
...1st. All sea-going sailing vessels when underway or being towed, are to carry from sunset to sunrise a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the larboard (port) side of the vessel. These lights are to be arranged in such a manner as to be visible... | |
 | 1859 - 788 pages
...1st. All sea-going sailing vessels when underway or being towed, are to carry from sunset to sunrise a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the larboard (port) side of the vessel. These lights are to be arranged iu such a manner аз to be visible... | |
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Sidelights" means a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side... 
