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Common terms and phrases
14 miles 3-fathoms edge anchor anchorage bank Bass strait beacon bearing bight black buoy buoy cable's length cables wide cape Elizabeth Cape Leeuwin cape Northumberland cape Otway chart cliffs coast trends Coffin bay cove creek direction distance east side eastern entrance point fathoms water feet high feet water flat Flinders Flinders island forms full and change half a mile harbour head high water hill inlet isle islet jetty land lies light-house light-vessel low water main-land mile broad mile northward mile wide miles deep miles eastward miles long miles south-eastward moored mount narrow nearly 1 mile north-east extreme north-west north-westward northern one-third outer patch perch buoy point Lonsdale Port Phillip projects quarter reef rise river round sand sandy beach Shortland bluff soundings south point south-east south-eastern south-west point southern southward Spencer gulf steer sunken rocks thence three-quarters vessel Wallaroo weather West channel western shore westward Wilson promontory winds yards
Popular passages
Page 383 - On the starboard s'ide, a green light, of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles, and so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass...
Page 383 - ... points abaft the beam on either side ; and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least five miles...
Page 383 - When canal boats are towed at a hawser in one or more tiers, two or more abreast, the boat on the starboard side of each tier shall carry a green light on her starboard side, and the boat on the port side...
Page 383 - Officers of the Army, Navy, or Marines, being duly employed for the Prevention of Smuggling, and on Full Pay, or any Officer or Officers of...
Page 383 - We hereby require that all Sailing Vessels when under sail, or being towed, approaching or being approached by any other Vessel, shall be bound to show, between sunset and sunrise, a bright Light in such a position as can be best seen by such vessel or vessels, and in sufficient time to avoid collision.
Page 42 - ... you are to haul upon the rocket line until you get a tailed block with an endless fall rove through it. 3. Make the tail of the block fast to the mast about 15 feet above the deck, or if your masts are gone, to the highest secure part of the vessel...
Page 383 - ... or shall forge, change or alter in any manner, any such weigh-note, or the marks and numbers which such inspector shall have attached to any samples which he may have drawn for exhibition ; such person or persons so offending, shall, on conviction thereof before any court having cognizance thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of such court.*8 F«ititi«on § 182.
Page 42 - When he is in, and secure, one of the crew must be separated from the rest, and again signal to the shore as directed in Article 1 above.
Page 384 - ... between sunset and sunrise, a bright light, in such a position as can be best seen by such vessel or vessels, and in sufficient time to avoid collision. All sailing vessels at anchor in roadsteads or fairways shall...
Page 245 - Tamar river, which flows through a valley betwixt two irregular chains of hills, that shoot out north-westward from the great body of inland mountains. In some places, these hills stand wide apart, and the river then opens its banks to a considerable extent ; in others, they nearly meet, and contract it to narrow limits.