United States Coast Pilot: Gulf Coast. Key West to the Rio GrandeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - Pilot guides |
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12 feet anchor anchorage Apalachicola approach Aransas bank barges Bayou bearing boats Bocagrande bridge buoy Canal Cape Carrabelle carried Cedar Keys chart City coast controlling depth craft deep distance draft drawbridge dredged channel east eastward enter entrance feet wide fixed white Florida Fort Myers Galveston Galveston Bay Gasoline Harbor haul inside Island jetties Key West Lake Lake Borgne leaving beacon Lighthouse located low water marine marked miles westward Mississippi River Mobile Morgan City mouth navigable north side northerly northward Northwest obtained Orleans Pensacola Pensacola Bay pilot pilotage Pine Island Sound Point Port Arthur Port Tampa Punta quarantine radio railroad range red light reefs Sabine Pass San Carlos Bay Ship shoals shore signal Sound southward southwestward starboard steam vessel steamers steer Tampa Bay tide tons towed town true turning basin velocity wharf wharves whistling buoy white light width wind yards
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Page 222 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Page 216 - ... shall be deemed to be an overtaking vessel ; and no subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these Rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.
Page 216 - Where by any of these rules one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.
Page 215 - When two steam- vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 227 - ... points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance ot at least 2 miles.
Page 214 - ... shall be provided with an efficient whistle or siren, sounded by steam or by some substitute for steam, so placed that the sound may not be intercepted by any obstruction, and with an efficient fog horn, to be sounded by mechanical means, and also with an efficient bell.
Page 215 - Sailing vessels and boats of less than twenty tons gross tonnage shall not be obliged to give the above-mentioned signals, but if they do not, they shall make some other efficient sound signal at intervals of not more than one minute.
Page 215 - This article only applies to cases where vessels are meeting end on or nearly end on in such a manner as to involve risk of collision...
Page 222 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of a neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 220 - Every vessel may, if necessary in order to attract attention, in addition to the lights which she is by these Rules required to carry, show a flare-up light or use any detonating signal that cannot be mistaken for a distress signal.