United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast. Sandy Hook to Cape HenryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Pilot guides |
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1½ miles 12 feet 9 feet anchor anchorage bearing bell buoy best water black buoy buoy bush stakes canal Cape Charles Cape Henlopen chart Chesapeake Bay Chester River Choptank River Coast Coast Pilot course Creek deepest draft Delaware Bay Delaware River distance drawbridge dredged dredged channel eastern side entering fall of tides feet at high feet deep feet draft feet wide gas and bell gas buoy Hampton Roads Harbor Havre de Grace headroom high water Inlet inside Landing least depth light vessel low water marked by buoys mean rise mid-channel mile eastward mile southward mouth narrow Newport Norfolk north side northward Old Point Comfort pass pier pilot Pocomoke Sound Point lighthouse Point Shoal port post village range red buoy shore signal small boats south side southeastward starboard station steam vessel steer tributaries true NW tube west side western wharf wharves white light Wicomico River yards westward