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Admiralty anchor appears Area included Arklow ARTICLE ballast bank Banka Strait barque Beacon Bearings Magnetic Board of Trade boat brig Buoy cables Cape cargo Certificate of Competency channel charge chart chief mate Chin-kiang coast Commander Consul course danger Danube deck direction discharge distance ducats east eastward eclipse engines entrance evidence fathoms February feet Galatz gale Greenwich harbour included between Lat Island land life-boat lighter lighthouse Liverpool Long Lordships loss mate MERCANTILE MARINE MAGAZINE Merchant Shipping Act miles moorings Nautical Assessor navigation night o'clock observed Occasional winds officers opinion passed Pilotage Port Captain Port of Sulina position Prevailing wind Pulo reef rescuing the crew river Rock Royal Royal Naval Reserve sail seamen seen services in rescuing ship's shoal shore side starboard steam steamer steered Straits Sulina tide tonnage tons tower TRINITY HOUSE voyage weather westward White Light wrecked
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Page 48 - A passenger steamer shall be provided with a safety valve on each boiler, so constructed as to be out of the control of the engineer when the steam is up, and, if...
Page 60 - includes every ship employed in trading or going within the following limits; that is to say, the United Kingdom, the. Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, and the continent of Europe between the River Elbe and Brest, inclusive...
Page 48 - Nothing in this section shall exempt a person from any liability, civil or criminal, to which he would otherwise be subject for failing to adopt any reasonable precautions which, although not mentioned in this section, are reasonably required to prevent grain cargo from shifting.
Page 254 - Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority committed to her by the International Copyright Acts, 1844 to 1886, doth order, and it is hereby ordered as follows : 1.
Page 253 - Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, Sweden and Norway, and the Hanse Towns, on the one part, and Denmark, on the other part, for the Redemption of the Sound Dues.
Page 336 - An addition to the laws was duly passed and confirmed, to the effect that the Society " be empowered to elect as Associates masters of vessels or others engaged in marine pursuits, who may have peculiar facilities for adding to the scientific interest of the Society's proceedings ; such Associates to be in every case recommended by the council, and to have the same privileges as honorary members — their number to be limited to twenty-five.
Page 45 - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st ultimo, enclosing a copy of a letter from Mr.
Page 284 - ... and whereas it has been made to appear to Her Majesty that...
Page 128 - The light is a fixed red light, placed at an elevation of 33 feet above the mean level of the sea, and should be seen in clear weather, from the deck of a ship, at a distance of four miles. The light-house is of skeleton wood-work, at the end of the jetty, and at 240 yards from the shore. Its approximate position is given in lat. 37° 41' 30
Page 103 - Institution in 1824 to the end of the year 1862, either by its life-boats, or by special exertions for which it has granted rewards, is 12,854. How inadequately words expressed the aggregate amount of misery which the saving of so many thousands of lives...