Motorboat Bills: Hearings Before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6039, a Bill to Amend Laws for Preventing Collision of Vessels, to Regulate Equipment of Certain Motorboats on Navigable Waters of the United States, and for Other Purposes; and H.R. 6273, a Bill with Respect to Boats Equipped with Detachable Motors and for Other Motorboats. June 6, 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 50 páginas |
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... accidents and that sort of thing , and it seems to me it has been in the existing law for years , and it is going back in existing law if I have my way . Have you anything to say about it ? Mr. RAPPLEYEA . If I understand you correctly ...
... accidents and that sort of thing , and it seems to me it has been in the existing law for years , and it is going back in existing law if I have my way . Have you anything to say about it ? Mr. RAPPLEYEA . If I understand you correctly ...
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... accident , never had a fire . But going back on some boats that have been built by amateurs and did not have those safety devices , I have had some pretty good scares ; my heart has beat several times more quickly than it should , and I ...
... accident , never had a fire . But going back on some boats that have been built by amateurs and did not have those safety devices , I have had some pretty good scares ; my heart has beat several times more quickly than it should , and I ...
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... accidents and loss of life ? Mr. MURPHY . I am not thoroughly familiar with it , sir , but I do not believe there have been many accidents in small motorboats . Mr. WELCH . You are not familiar with them , yet you stated you own one ...
... accidents and loss of life ? Mr. MURPHY . I am not thoroughly familiar with it , sir , but I do not believe there have been many accidents in small motorboats . Mr. WELCH . You are not familiar with them , yet you stated you own one ...
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... accidents . That little combination light set up on the bow of the boat does not take up any room at all . The CHAIRMAN . All right ; take up the next point . Mr. MURPHY . There is another point there . Subsection 22 MOTORBOAT BILLS.
... accidents . That little combination light set up on the bow of the boat does not take up any room at all . The CHAIRMAN . All right ; take up the next point . Mr. MURPHY . There is another point there . Subsection 22 MOTORBOAT BILLS.
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... accidents around Sheepshead Bay because of insufficient lights on crowded waters ? Mr. MURPHY . Well , we have had a few accidents up there , not entirely due , of course , to insufficient lights , for the simple reason they are using ...
... accidents around Sheepshead Bay because of insufficient lights on crowded waters ? Mr. MURPHY . Well , we have had a few accidents up there , not entirely due , of course , to insufficient lights , for the simple reason they are using ...
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Act of June amend American Power Boat approval bill H. R. board copies Board of Supervising buoyant cushions Bureau of Navigation Captain SWEET carry on board CHAIRMAN colored side lights combination light Committee on Merchant Congress craft D. C. DEAR SIR Department of Commerce device draft bill provides driver enacted engine feet in length fire extinguisher flame arresters fog horn GUDGEON June 9 KEEFE Lake legislation manufacturers Marine and Fisheries Merchant Marine Motorboat Act motorboats of class motorboats or vessels MURPHY navigation outboard boats outboard motorboat outboard motors outboard racing passengers for hire penalty pilot rules Power Boat Association present law preserver PRESIDENT'S CUP propelled by machinery propelled by sail provides that motorboats racing boats RAPPLEYEA required to carry Revised Statutes rowboat sail and machinery Secretary of Commerce Sheepshead Bay small boats solely for racing Supervising Inspectors thing vessel propelled Washington whistle
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Página 43 - A combined lantern in the fore part of the vessel and lower than the white light aft, showing green to starboard and red to port, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.
Página 19 - ... the board of supervising inspectors with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce...
Página 2 - ... of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. (c) On the...
Página 1 - ... 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...
Página 7 - Clerk of the United States District Court in and for the Southern District of New York...
Página 2 - ... shall be operated or navigated except in charge of a person duly licensed for such service by the local board of inspectors.
Página 1 - The rules concerning lights shall be complied with in all weathers from sunset, to sunrise, and during such time no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited.
Página 9 - Act or of any regulations pertaining thereto. For any penalty incurred under this section the motorboat or vessel shall be held liable and may be proceeded against by way of libel in the district court of any district in which...
Página 2 - Rowing boats, whether under oars or sail, shall have ready at hand a lantern showing a white light which shall be temporarily exhibited in sufficient time to prevent collision. The vessels referred to in this article shall not be obliged to carry the lights prescribed by article four (a) and article eleven, last paragraph.
Página 1 - Class 1. Sixteen feet or over and less than twenty-six feet in length. Class 2. Twenty-six feet or over and less than forty feet in length. Class 3.