Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review, Volume 2Griffiths, Bates, 1855 - Shipbuilding |
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Page 275 - ... ship in which he has served had earned freight, shall, subject to all other rules of law and conditions applicable to the case, be entitled to...
Page 275 - Title, and every stipulation by which any seaman consents to abandon his right to his wages in the case of the loss of the ship, or to abandon any right which he may have or obtain in the nature of salvage, shall be wholly inoperative.
Page 95 - An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Page 95 - Act to provide for the ventilation of passenger vessels, and for other purposes," approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, relating to provisions, water, and fuel ; but the owners and masters of all such vessels shall in all cases furnish to each passenger the daily supply of water therein mentioned, and they shall furnish...
Page 94 - That all vessels employed as aforesaid shall have on board, for the use of such passengers, at the time of leaving the last port whence such vessel shall sail, well secured under deck, for each passenger, at least...
Page 175 - Take the length of the keel within board, (so much as she treads on the ground) and the breadth within board by the midship beam, from plank to plank, and half the breadth for the depth, then multiply the length by the breadth, and that product by the depth, and divide the whole by ninety-four, the quotient will give the true contents of the tonnage...
Page 92 - That no master of any vessel owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States, or by a citizen of any foreign country, shall take on board such vessel, at any foreign port or place, other than foreign contiguous territory of the United States...
Page 94 - That the master of every such steamship or other vessel is authorized to maintain good discipline and such habits of cleanliness among such passengers as will tend to the preservation and promotion of health, and to that end he shall cause such regulations as he may adopt for such...
Page 256 - It is not necessary to associate with oceanic currents the idea that they must of necessity, as on land, run from a higher to a lower level. So far from this being the case, some currents of the sea actually run up hill, while others run on a level. The Gulf Stream was of the first class.
Page 270 - Depths: — at the foremost, the middle and the aftermost of those points of division, measure in feet and decimal parts of a foot the depths from the under side of the upper deck to the ceiling at the limber strake : in the case of a break in the upper deck, the depths are to be measured from a line stretched in a continuation of the deck. Breadths: — divide each of...