To Regulate Navigation on the Great Lakes: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Inland Waterways and Fresh-Water Fisheries of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 217, a Bill to Amend the Act Entitled "An Act to Regulate Navigation on the Great Lakes and Their Connecting and Tributary Waters," Approved February 8, 1895 |
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26 feet Act U. S. C. addition Admiral SPENCER anchor in fog anchored vessel approaching vessel approved February audibility believe bell signal best be seen black balls blow boats under 26 BRADLEY bright white light BROPHY Captain CRERAR Captain FARWELL Captain Saunders Chairman Coast Guard collision confusion Congress connecting and tributary danger signal distance EMORY H enacted feel feet in diameter feet in length fog bell fog signal FRED BRADLEY hear heard HOWARD SAUNDERS JOHNSON Lake Carriers Association Lake Erie Lakes rules length shall carry long and short long blasts masthead light Merchant Marine MILLET HAND motor boats moving vessel operators present rule range light RAYFIEL regulate navigation RYDHOLM Shore Captains Committee short blast small boats small craft steam vessel subcommittee thing tion title 33 TOLLEFSON tributary waters vertical line vessel aground vessel at anchor visible WEICHEL whistle signal
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Page 44 - ... two red lights, in a vertical line one over the other, not less than six feet apart, and of such a character as to be visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least two miles; and shall by day carry in a vertical line one over the other, not less than six feet apart, where they can best be seen, two black balls or shapes, each two feet in diameter.
Page 45 - A steam vessel when under way shall carry — -(a) On or in front of the foremast, or if a vessel without a foremast, then in the fore part of the vessel, at a height above the hull of not less than...
Page 3 - A vessel which from any accident is not under command shall carry at the same height as a white light mentioned in Article 2 (a), where they can best be seen, and if a steam vessel in lieu of that light, two red lights, in a vertical line one over the other...
Page 44 - ... feet apart, each so fixed as to throw the light all around the horizon and of such character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles.
Page 44 - ... at intervals of not more than two minutes, when on the starboard tack one blast, when on the port tack two blasts in succession, and when with the wind abaft the beam three blasts in succession. (c) A steam ship and a sailing ship, when not under way, shall at intervals of not more than two minutes ring the bell.
Page 4 - An Act to regulate navigation on the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Page 3 - ... visible at a distance of at least three miles. Such light shall be placed in line with the keel at least fifteen feet higher than, and more than...
Page 45 - By day such vessel shall carry in a vertical line one over the other not less than three feet apart, where they can best be seen, two black balls, each two feet in diameter.
Page 45 - ... and shall by day carry in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart, in front of but not lower than her foremast head, three black balls or shapes, each two feet in diameter.
Page 5 - ... of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least five miles.