Instructions for United States Coast Guard Stations: 1916U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - 180 páginas |
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alphabet flag Answer apparently drowned arms assistance beach cart bight blades block boat under sail boats of class breeches buoy buoy Coast Guard code book code flag command compass cornet crew crotch danger Dash Code distant signal drill drogue drowning person duties engine fire fore foresail forward gunwale gybe half hitch halyards hand flags haul hawser headway hoist hold inches International Code interval keep keeper lantern letters per minute light methods lookout mainsail means motor boats Navy Flag Code necessary oars oarsmen occulting light occulting or flashing officer painted patient patrol pennant position power boat Question rowlock rules Rules for Boats running salute sand anchor semaphore method sender ship or station shore short blasts shot line slack starboard stern stroke surf surfboat surfman tack thwart tiller towing United States Navy vessel weather whip wigwag wind wreck
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Página 132 - On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points 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 sucli a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. (c) On the...
Página 63 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Página 157 - The distant signal, consisting of a square flag, having either above or below it a ball or anything resembling a ball.
Página 158 - Second. Flames on the vessel (as from a burning tar barrel, oil barrel, and so forth). Third. Rockets or shells throwing stars of any color or description, fired one at a time, at short intervals. Fourth. A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus.
Página 63 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Página 132 - Light so constructed as to throw an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass ; so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Página 63 - In narrow channels every steam vessel shall, when it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such vessel.
Página 129 - I am directing my course to starboard." Two short blasts to mean, "I am directing my course to port.
Página 129 - When steam vessels are moved from their docks or berths, and other boats are liable to pass from any direction toward them, they shall give the same signal as in the case of vessels meeting at a bend, but immediately after clearing the berths so as to be fully in sight they shall be governed by the steering and sailing rules.
Página 62 - ... (c) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.