 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - 1869 - 450 pages
...9. — Of what colour are these lights, and how are they to be placed on on board the ship ? A. — A green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. jo. — What description of light must be shown from the sides of sailing vessels under weigh ; and... | |
 | Henry Oldright - 1870 - 896 pages
...Merchants' Shipping Act, 1854. And by them it is ordered that "all seagoing sailing vessels when under way shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a green...and a red light on the port side of the vessel." And the 298th section of that statute enacts, "that if in any case of collision it appears to the Court,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 868 pages
...night with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least five miles. They nre also required to carry a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side, so constructed as to throw a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of... | |
 | David Dudley Field - International law - 1872 - 728 pages
...for the above : " Sailing ships under weigh, or being towed, shall carry side lights only, namely, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side, (of the same character, and in the same relative position, and screened similar to those of steamers, as in... | |
 | Sir Edward James Reed, Joseph Woolley - Naval art and science - 1872 - 570 pages
...distinguish their sides by displaying at night, in addition to the white mast-head light already carried, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. It is evident that when this change was introduced the rule of the road should have been altered to... | |
 | William Culley Bergen - 1872 - 688 pages
...A.— Two. 9. Of what colour are these lights, and how are they to be placed on board the ship ? A. — A green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. 10. What description of light must be shown from the sides of sailing vessels under weigh ; and over... | |
 | Manley Hopkins - Average (Maritime law) - 1873 - 370 pages
...proper lights at the time of the accident; namely, if a steamer, a white liglit at the foremast head, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side ; that the lights were burning brightly, and the sidelights fitted with screens, &c. Yet it is to be... | |
 | William Cooper - Yacht building - 1873 - 520 pages
...powerful light it will be the first seen, its range of illumination being calculated at five miles. A green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side, the range of these two lights being calculated at two miles. Sailing vessels, yachts included, carry... | |
 | Québec (Province). Vice-Admiralty Court - Admiralty - 1875 - 514 pages
...the same provision, sailing vessels, when under weigh, are required, between sunset and sunrise, to exhibit a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side of the vessels ; and such lights are to be constructed as stated in such regulations. The Aurora — Morrison,... | |
 | William C. Seaton - Merchant mariners - 1875 - 298 pages
...Two. 9. — Of what colour are these lights, and how are they to be placed on board the ship ? A. — A green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. 10. — What description of light must be shown from the sides of sailing vessels under weigh ; and... | |
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Sidelights" means a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side... 
