To Regulate Navigation on the Great Lakes: Hearings Before the Subcommmittee on Inland Waterways and Fresh-water Fisheries... on H.R. 217... Feb. 14-27, 1947 |
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26 feet Act entitled Act to regulate Act U. S. C. addition Admiral SPENCER anchor in fog anchored vessel approaching vessel approved February audibility believe best be seen black balls blow boats under 26 BRADLEY BROPHY Captain CRERAR Captain FARWELL Captain Saunders Chairman Cleveland Coast Guard collision COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT confusion Congress connecting and tributary danger signal distance EMORY H enacted feet in diameter feet in length fog bell fog signal FRED BRADLEY hear heard HOWARD SAUNDERS JOHNSON Lake Carriers Association Lake Erie Lakes rules long and short long blasts MARINE AND FISHERIES masthead light Merchant Marine MILLET HAND motor boats present rule range light RAYFIEL regulate navigation RULE 30 Rydholm Shore Captains Committee short blast small boats steam vessel subcommittee thing tion title 33 TOLLEFSON tributary waters vertical line vessel at anchor visible WEICHEL whistle signal
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Page 5 - 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...
Page 3 - Commerce may remit said fine on such terms as he may prescribe: Provided also, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to amend or repeal the Act entitled "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 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 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 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 3 - By day she shall carry in a vertical line, one over the other, not less than six feet apart, where they can best be seen, three shapes not less than two feet in diameter...
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 5 - ... uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the ship, viz. from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side...
Page 44 - ... miles ; 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.