 | Medicine - 1882 - 916 pages
...clear and "go ahead" at full speed. In the marine service the danger is increased. All vessels carry a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port, so boxed as to be seen forward and amidships ; accompanied by a low white forelight, and sometimes... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1883 - 706 pages
...present system perfectly well, which consists in placing coloured lights on each side of the vessel — a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side, with a board shutting off each light from the opposite side. It is quite plain that under such a system,... | |
 | Electricity - 1883 - 692 pages
...present system perfectly well, which consists in placing coloured lights on each side of the vessel — a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side, with a board shutting off each light from the opposite side. It is quite plain that under such a system,... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Mechanical engineering - 1884 - 740 pages
...white light is fixed on the foremast, so as to show the light ten points on each side of the ship, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side, so constructed as to show the same number of points. Coasting steamers navigating the bays, lakes,... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - Seamanship - 1884 - 228 pages
...65.) g. — Of what colour are these lights, and how are they to be placed on board the ship P A. — A green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. (Arts. 6 and 3, pages 65 and 64.) A. — Each light must show an uniform and unbroken light over an... | |
 | William Chapman (capt.) - 1885 - 78 pages
...lights must steamers carry when under steam at night ? A. Three : a white light at the fore-mast head ; a green light on the starboard side ; and a red light on the port side. Q. At what height must the mast head light te ? A. At a height above the hull of the ship of not less... | |
 | Reginald Godfrey Marsden - Collisions at sea - 1885 - 616 pages
...white light whieh other steamships are required to earry, a lanthorn (sie) showing a white light ahead, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. Sueh lanthorn shall be so constructed, fitted and arranged, as to show an uniform and unbroken white... | |
 | Great Britain. Foreign Office - Commercial treaties - 1885 - 1190 pages
...with a white light, easily visible at a distance of two miles, hoisted at the foremast head, and with a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port side. The side lights shall be furnished with inboard screens from aft forward, so that the green light cannot... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Mechanical engineering - 1888 - 702 pages
...white light is fixed on the foremast, so as to show the light ten points on each side of the ship, a green light on the starboard side, and a red light on the port suiti, so constructed as to show the same number of points. Coasting steamers navigating the bays,... | |
 | Fishing - 1889 - 252 pages
...Boats.— All steam vessels must carry at night, when under way, a white light at the foremast head, a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side; when towing other vessels a steam vessel must carry two white masthead lights vertically in addition... | |
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Sidelights" means a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side... 
