 | Alfred Henry Alston - Hydrographic surveying - 1860 - 498 pages
...gives way to a sailing vessel. 252. SHIPS UNDER STEAM — carry a white light at the foremast head, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. The side lights to be fitted with 164 inboard screens, projecting at least three feet forward from... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1861 - 968 pages
...requires government vessels when under steam, to carry three lights— a white light at the foremast head, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. These colored lights arc screened and mutually seen only by vessels meeting. A vessel therefore seeing,... | |
 | 1862 - 510 pages
...fog horn or bell, as ordered for sailing ships. SAILING VESSELS.—!. All sea-going sailing vessels, when under way or being towed, shall, between sunset...light on the port side of the vessel, and such lights nhall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of... | |
 | David Maclachlan - Maritime law - 1860 - 1046 pages
...either side.1 8. The green light on the starhoard side and the red light on the port side shall he so constructed as to be visible on a dark night, with...atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles, and show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, and they... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, Vernon Lushington - Admiralty - 1864 - 792 pages
...regulations re-enacted almost in identical terms.] Sailing Vessels. 1. Allsea-going sailing vessels, when under way or being towed, shall, between sunset...starboard side, and a red light on the port side, &c. • • * • • * » Given under our hands this 24th day of February, 1858. CHARLES WOOD. RS... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, John Haggard - Admiralty - 1864 - 734 pages
...regulations re-enacted almost in identical terms.] Sailing Vessels. 1. All sea-going sailing vessels, when under way or being towed, shall, between sunset...starboard side, and a red light on the port side, &c. • • • • • • • Given under our hands this 24th day of February, 1858. CHARLES WOOD.... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - 1864 - 360 pages
...beam on either side. 2. The Green Light on the starboard side, and the Red Light on the port side, shall be so constructed as to be visible on a dark...atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles, and show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of io points of the compass ; and they... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Admiralty - 1864 - 446 pages
...prevent collision ; and we hereby make the following regulations : " All seagoing sailing vessels . . . shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a green...side, and a red light on the port side of the vessel . . . " The . . . lights slmll be fixed whenever it is practicable so to exhibit them . . . " When... | |
 | Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Edmund F. Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 594 pages
...provide:— (1), "that all sea-going sailing vessels, when under way or being towed, shall, between suuset and sunrise, exhibit a green light on the starboard...a red light on the port side of the vessel ;" and (2), " that the coloured lights shall be fixed, wherever it is practicable so to exhibit them." Held,... | |
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Sidelights" means a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side... 
