Coast Artillery War GameU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 100 páginas |
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action aiming point anchor armament Armored cruiser Artillery War Game ARTILLERY WAR INSTRUCTION assignment balopticon base-Track battery commander battery commander's station Battle cruiser Battleship blockade Boca Grande buoy caliber Casualty coast-defense commander COMMANDER'S COURSE cubes curtain Cutter damaged deck destroyers division Dreadnaught drill Durazzo ensign estimating the situation feet field FIGURE fire commander fire commander's fleet foremast form of attack Fort Andrews fortifications funnel given gun pointers gunfire harbor Hermaphrodite brig hoisted identification of targets illuminating light inch equals 100 indication and identification instructor knots speed Kongo lamp box land Launch light cruiser mast miles mines mortars move naval attack officers orders port protected cruiser Quartermaster range board reconnoissance sailing vessels schooner searchlights seconds senior fort commander signal starboard steam vessel steamer subareas submarine Sunk by crew tactical telephone operator tons coal topsail torpedo towed Track umpire various vertical war-game board warships yardarm
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Página 69 - sailing vessels and vessels towed," on the fog horn. The words "prolonged blast," used in this article, shall mean a blast of from four to six second*
Página 70 - When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, namely: In the daytime — First.
Página 69 - ... (c.) On the port side, a red light, so constructed as to show 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 2 points abaft the beam...
Página 69 - These two lights shall be so placed in line with the keel that one shall be at least fifteen feet higher than the other, and in such a position with reference to each other that the lower light shall be forward of the upper one. The vertical distance between these lights shall be less than the horizontal distance.
Página 70 - ... (c) A sailing vessel under way shall sound, at intervals of not more than one minute, when on the starboard tack, one blast; when on the port tack, two blasts in succession, and when with the wind abaft the beam, three blasts in succession...
Página 69 - Such steam vessel may carry a small white light abaft the funnel or aftermast for the vessel towed to steer by, but such light shall not be visible forward of the beam.
Página 70 - 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 69 - ... namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles.
Página 70 - When a steam vessel and a sailing vessel are proceeding in such directions as to involve risk of collision, the steam vessel shall keep out of the way of the sailing vessel.
Página 69 - ... (d) The said green and red side lights shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least 3 feet forward from the light, so as to prevent these lights from being seen across the bow.