ART. 8. Pilot vessels when engaged on their station on pilotage gaged on their stations on pilotduty shall not show the lights re-age duty shall not show the lights quired for other vessels, but shall carry a white light at the masthead, visible all around the horizon, and shall also exhibit a flare-up light or flare-up lights at short intervals, which shall never exceed fifteen minutes.

A steam pilot vessel, when enA steam pilot vessel, when engaged on her station on pilotage gaged on her station on pilotage duty and in waters of the United duty and in waters of the United States, and not at anchor, shall, States, and not at anchor, shall, in addition to the lights required in addition to the lights required for all pilot boats, carry at a disfor all pilot boats, carry at a dis-tance of eight feet below her tance of eight feet below her white white masthead light a red light,

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phere at a distance of at least two miles, and also the colored side lights required to be carried by vessels when under way.

visible all around the horizon and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night with a clear at

two miles, and also the colored side lights required to be carried by vessels when under way.

When engaged on her station When engaged on her station the United States, and at anchor, on pilotage duty and in waters of on pilotage duty and in waters of she shall carry in addition to the the United States, and at anchor, lights required for all pilot boats she shall carry in addition to the the red light above mentioned, lights required for all pilot boats but not the colored side lights. the red light above mentioned, but When not engaged on her station not the colored side lights. When on pilotage duty, she shall carry not engaged on her station on the same lights as other steam pilotage duty, she shall carry the same lights as other steam vessels.

LIGHTS, ETC., OF FISHING VESSELS

ART. 9. Fishing vessels and fishing boats, when under way and when not required by this article to carry or show the lights hereinafter specified, shall carry or show the lights prescribed for vessels of their tonnage under

way.

vessels.

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ART. 9. (a) Fishing vessels_of less than ten gross tons, when under way and when not having their nets, trawls, dredges, or lines in the water, shall not be obliged to carry the colored side lights; but every such vessel shall, in lieu thereof, have ready at hand a (a) Open boats, by which is to lantern with a green glass on one be understood boats not pro- side and a red glass on the other tected from the entry of sea water side, and on approaching to or by means of a continuous deck, being approached by another when engaged in any fishing at vessel such lantern shall be exnight, with outlying tackle ex- hibited in sufficient time to pretending not more than one hun-vent collision, so that the green dred and fifty feet horizontally light shall not be seen on the port from the boat into the seaway, side nor the red light on the starshall carry one all-round white board side. light.

Open boats, when fishing at night, with outlying tackle extending more than one hundred and fifty feet horizontally from the boat into the seaway, shall carry one all-round white light, and in addition, on approaching or being approached by other vessels, shall show a second white light at least three feet below the first light and at a horizontal dis

(b) All fishing vessels and fishing boats of ten gross tons or upward, when under way and when not having their nets, trawls, dredges, or lines in the water, shall carry and show the same lights as other vessels under way.

(c) All vessels, when trawling, dredging, or fishing with any kind of drag nets or lines, shall exhibit, from some part of the vessel where they can be best seen, two

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tance of at least five feet away lights. One of these lights shall from it in the direction in which be red and the other shall be the outlying tackle is attached. white. The red light shall be (b) Vessels and boats, except above the white light, and shall open boats as defined in subdivi- be at a vertical distance from it sion (a), when fishing with drift of not less than six feet and not nets, shall, so long as the nets are more than twelve feet; and the wholly or partly in the water, horizontal distance between them, carry two white lights where they if any, shall not be more than ten can best be seen. Such lights feet. These two lights shall be of shall be placed so that the vertical such a character and contained in distance between them shall be not lanterns of such construction as less than six feet and not more to be visible all round the horizon, than fifteen feet, and so that the the white light a distance of not horizontal distance between them, less than three miles and the red measured in a line with the keel, light of not less than two miles. shall be not less than five feet and not

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more than ten feet. The LIGHTS FOR RAFTS OR OTHER CRAFT lower of these two lights shall be in the direction of the nets, and both of them shall be of such a

character as to show all around the horizon, and to be visible at a distance of not less than three

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(d) Rafts, or other water craft not herein provided for, navigating by hand power, horse power, or by the current of the river, shall carry one or more good Within the Mediterranean Sea white lights, which shall be placed and in the seas bordering the in such manner as shall be precoasts of Japan and Korea sailing scribed by the Board of Superfishing vessels of less than twenty vising Inspectors of Steam tons gross tonnage shall not be Vessels. obliged to carry the lower of these two lights. Should they, however, not carry it, they shall show in the same position (in the direction of the net or gear) a white light, visible at a distance of not less than one sea mile, on the approach of or to other vessels.

(c) Vessels and boats, except open boats as defined in subdivision (a), when line fishing with their lines out and attached to or hauling their lines, and when not at anchor or stationary within the meaning of subdivision (h), shall carry the same lights as vessels fishing with drift nets. When shooting lines, or fishing with towing lines, they shall carry the

Under Executive Order 9083, dated February 28, 1942, all functions of the Board of Supervising Inspectors were transferred to the Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard.

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lights prescribed for a steam or sailing vessel under way, respectively.

Within the Mediterranean Sea and in the seas bordering the coasts of Japan and Korea sailing fishing vessels of less than twenty tons gross tonnage shall not be obliged to carry the lower of these two lights. Should they, however, not carry it, they shall show in the same position (in the direction of the lines) a white light, visible at a distance of not less than one sea mile on the approach of or to other vessels.

(d) Vessels when engaged in trawling, by which is meant the dragging of an apparatus along the bottom of the sea

First. If steam vessels, shall shall carry in the same position as the white light mentioned in article two (a) a tri-colored lantern so constructed and fixed as to show a white light from right ahead to two points on each bow, and a green light and a red light over an arc of the horizon from two points on each bow to two points abaft the beam on the starboard and port sides, respectively; and not less than six nor more than twelve feet below the tricolored lantern a white light in a lantern, so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light all around the horizon.

Second. If sailing vessels, shall carry a white light in a lantern, so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light all around the horizon, and shall also, on the approach of or to other vessels, show where it can best be seen a white flare-up light or torch in sufficient time to prevent collision.

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be visible at a distance of at least two miles.

(e) Oyster dredgers and other vessels fishing with dredge nets shall carry and show the same lights as trawlers.

(f) Fishing vessels and fishing boats may at any time use a flareup light in addition to the lights which they are by this article required to carry and show, and they may also use working lights.

(g) Every fishing vessel and every fishing boat under one hundred and fifty feet in length, when at anchor, shall exhibit a white light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.

Every fishing vessel of one hundred and fifty feet in length or upward, when at anchor, shall exhibit a white light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile, and shall exhibit a second light as provided for vessels of such length by article eleven.

Should any such vessel, whether under one hundred and fifty feet in length or of one hundred and fifty feet in length or upward, be attached to a net or other fishing gear, she shall on the approach of other vessels show an additional white light at least three feet below the anchor light, and at a horizontal distance of at least five feet away from it in the direction of the net or gear.

(h) If a vessel or boat when fishing becomes stationary in consequence of her gear getting fast to a rock or other obstruction, she shall in daytime haul down the day signal required by subdivision (k); at night show the light or lights prescribed for a vessel at anchor; and during fog, mist, falling snow, or heavy rainstorms make the signal prescribed for a vessel at anchor. (See subdivision (d) and the last paragraph of article fifteen.)

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