The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 53Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1884 |
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... harbour is handsomely endowed by grants of land , which will enable the board , as its value increases , to make the dues very low . There is one advan- tage which Oamaru Harbour possesses over many others , viz . , it has no bar . When ...
... harbour is handsomely endowed by grants of land , which will enable the board , as its value increases , to make the dues very low . There is one advan- tage which Oamaru Harbour possesses over many others , viz . , it has no bar . When ...
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... harbour . Douglas & Ramsay ... Dublin bar Dundalk .. ung ess Dunkere . Exmouth Falmouth Fecamp Flamborough heid ... harbour Honfleur Inverness H. M. PORT OF REFERENCE . -1 17 Leith -8 52 Liverpool +2 59 Brest +5 18 Dover -0 42 Leith +0 ...
... harbour . Douglas & Ramsay ... Dublin bar Dundalk .. ung ess Dunkere . Exmouth Falmouth Fecamp Flamborough heid ... harbour Honfleur Inverness H. M. PORT OF REFERENCE . -1 17 Leith -8 52 Liverpool +2 59 Brest +5 18 Dover -0 42 Leith +0 ...
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... harbour light on breakwater . Buoy marking extension . Light - vessel marking extension . New harbour lights . Harbour lights altered in colour . Provisional light . Position of sunken rock , New lights . Sunken rock . New light . New ...
... harbour light on breakwater . Buoy marking extension . Light - vessel marking extension . New harbour lights . Harbour lights altered in colour . Provisional light . Position of sunken rock , New lights . Sunken rock . New light . New ...
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... harbour approach . 37 tabu WEST INDIES - New Granada - La Hacha New light . 38 39 88888 19 Cuba - Port Caybarien -Francés Cay New light . UNITED STATES - Gulf of Mexico - Miss - Light re - exhibited . issippi Sound - Merrill's Shell ...
... harbour approach . 37 tabu WEST INDIES - New Granada - La Hacha New light . 38 39 88888 19 Cuba - Port Caybarien -Francés Cay New light . UNITED STATES - Gulf of Mexico - Miss - Light re - exhibited . issippi Sound - Merrill's Shell ...
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... Harbour Light on Breakwater . - On 1st December , 1883 , a harbour light would be exhibited from the eastern extremity of the break- water at the port of Salerno . The light is a fixed white light , visible inshore through an arc of 200 ...
... Harbour Light on Breakwater . - On 1st December , 1883 , a harbour light would be exhibited from the eastern extremity of the break- water at the port of Salerno . The light is a fixed white light , visible inshore through an arc of 200 ...
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Page 809 - On the starboard side, a green 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...
Page 809 - 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 on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles.
Page 464 - ... (f) A seaplane on the water under 150 feet in length, when at anchor, shall carry, where it can best be seen, a white light, visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least 2 miles.
Page 809 - In the following rules every steam vessel which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing vessel, and every vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a steam vessel. The words "steam vessel" shall include any vessel propelled by machinery. A vessel is "under way...
Page 881 - ... so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.
Page 464 - ... a bright white light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light 10 points on each side of the vessel...
Page 809 - ... feet, then at a height : above the hull not less than such breadth, so, however, that the light need not be carried at a greater height above the hull...
Page 664 - ... cents per ton in any one year, is hereby Imposed at each entry on all vessels which shall be entered in any port of the United States from any foreign port or place in North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, or the Coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or...
Page 662 - That it shall be, and is hereby made, unlawful in any case to pay any seaman wages in advance of the time when he has actually earned the same, or to pay such advance wages, or to make any order, or note, or other evidence of indebtedness therefor to any other person, or to pay any person, for the shipment of seamen when payment is deducted or to be deducted from a seaman's wages.
Page 809 - ... which is under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a ship under steam. Rules concerning Lights.