The British Merchant Service: Being a History of the British Mercantile Marine from the Earliest Times to the Present Day |
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Page 380 - 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.
Page 380 - When two steam vessels are crossing, so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Page 381 - 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.
Page 380 - ... other; in other words, to cases in which by day each vessel sees the masts of the other in a line or nearly in...
Page 373 - NC 3. The distant signal, consisting of a square flag, having either above or below it a ball or anything resembling a ball. 4.
Page 381 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any ship, or the owner, or master, or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look.out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 380 - Every steamship, when approaching another ship so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or if necessary stop and reverse ; and every steamship shall, when in a fog, go at a moderate speed.
Page 380 - It does not apply, by day, to cases in which a vessel sees another ahead crossing her own course; or, by night, to cases where the red light of one vessel is opposed to the red light of the other or where the green light of one vessel is opposed to the green light of the other or where a red light without a green light or a green light without a red light is seen ahead, or where both green and red lights are seen anywhere but ahead.
Page 382 - If to your starboard RED appear, It is your duty to keep clear ; To act as judgment says is proper ; To Port — or Starboard — Back — or, Stop her ! But when upon your Port is seen A Steamer's Starboard Light of GREEN, There's not so much for you to do, For GREEN to Port keeps clear of you.
Page 380 - ... sees the masts of the other in a line or nearly in a line with her own ; and by night to cases in which each ship is in such a position as to see both the side lights of the other.