United States Coast Pilot: Palawan, Mindanao, and Sulu archipelagoU.S. Government Printing Office, 1930 - Coastwise navigation |
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1/2 mile wide 1½ mile 34 mile anchorage Balabac Strait bank Basilan Busuanga Cagayan Sulu chart Coast Pilot coast trends coconut coral reef covered Cuyo Island dangers direction distance Dumaran east eastern side edge enter entrance point fathoms 11 fathoms 2.7 fathoms 3.6 fathoms 5.5 fathoms 7.3 fathoms 9.1 feet fringed harbor head heavily wooded height high water hill Island bears Island lies Islet land least depth low water lying mangrove mile eastward mile in extent miles long miles southeastward miles southward Mindanao monsoon mouth mud bottom narrow navigation nearly northeast northern northward northwest offshore Palawan peak Point the coast Port prominent Rasa Island reef extends River rocky sand beach sand cay Sandakan sandy shoal shoal water shore line shore reef Sibuguey Bay Sibutu Passage situated southeast southern southwest steep-to steer Strait Sulu Sea tangent Tawitawi tide trees vessels western westward wharf yards wide
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Page 396 - 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 look-out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 390 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on...
Page 390 - ... points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible...
Page 390 - The rules concerning lights shall be complied with in all weathers from sunset to sunrise, and during such time no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited.
Page 396 - When a steam vessel and a sailing vessel are proceeding in such directions as to involve risk of collision, the steam vessel shall keep out of the way of the sailing vessel.
Page 395 - When two sailing vessels are approaching one another, so as to involve risk of collision, one of them shall keep out of the way of the other...
Page 392 - Third. Vessels under oars or sails of less than twenty tons shall have ready at hand a lantern with a green glass on one side and a red glass on the other, which, on the approach of or...
Page 396 - 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 395 - A vessel which is close-hauled on the port tack shall keep out of the way of a vessel which is close-hauled on the starboard tack. (c) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Page 392 - Open boats, when fishing at night, with outlying tackle extending more than one hundred and fifty feet horizontally from the boat into the seaway, shall carry one allround white light, and in addition, on approaching or being approached by other vessels, shall show a second white light at least three feet below the first light and at a horizontal distance of at least five feet away from it in the direction in which the outlying tackle is attached.