Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of the Treasury, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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Page ix
... engaged in foreign trade , owned by American citizens , unless built in the United States , is necessary to give to this country again any rank as a maritime power . This prohibition is to be found particularly in section 4132 of the ...
... engaged in foreign trade , owned by American citizens , unless built in the United States , is necessary to give to this country again any rank as a maritime power . This prohibition is to be found particularly in section 4132 of the ...
Page xvii
... engaged in navigation has enabled this Bureau to prepare a statement upon the subject which , though adequate , is confessedly incomplete . The iron and steel steamers registered at Atlantic and Gulf ports for foreign trade on June 30 ...
... engaged in navigation has enabled this Bureau to prepare a statement upon the subject which , though adequate , is confessedly incomplete . The iron and steel steamers registered at Atlantic and Gulf ports for foreign trade on June 30 ...
Page xxxiv
... engaged in foreign trade was then and still is relatively so scant in tonnage . By that act the United States invited commercial nations to abolish light - house dues , tonnage taxes or equivalent burdens on com- merce , and agreed to ...
... engaged in foreign trade was then and still is relatively so scant in tonnage . By that act the United States invited commercial nations to abolish light - house dues , tonnage taxes or equivalent burdens on com- merce , and agreed to ...
Page xxxvii
... engaged in measuring vessels now consists of only 5 men , and from personal examination I am convinced that it would take at least 20 men at that port to enforce an order requiring the measurement , for example , of the gross and net ...
... engaged in measuring vessels now consists of only 5 men , and from personal examination I am convinced that it would take at least 20 men at that port to enforce an order requiring the measurement , for example , of the gross and net ...
Page xxxviii
... engaged . In brief , the project would result in a reduc- tion of tonnage taxes on all vessels under the American flag except six steamships in transatlantic trade and seven in transpacific trade . It reduces the rate of taxation on ...
... engaged . In brief , the project would result in a reduc- tion of tonnage taxes on all vessels under the American flag except six steamships in transatlantic trade and seven in transpacific trade . It reduces the rate of taxation on ...
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Page 228 - ... a bright white light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel, 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.
Page 221 - A vessel of one hundred and fifty feet or upwards in length when at anchor shall carry in the forward part of the vessel, at a height of not less than twenty and not exceeding forty feet above the hull, one such light, and at or near the stern of the vessel, and at such a height that it shall be not less than fifteen feet lower than the forward light, another such light.
Page 229 - Whenever, as in the case of small vessels under way during bad weather, the green and red side lights cannot be fixed, these lights shall be kept at hand lighted and ready for use; and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side, nor, if practicable, more than 2 points...
Page 223 - On the near approach of or to other vessels they shall have their sidelights lighted, ready for use, and shall flash or show them at short intervals to indicate the direction in which they are heading, but the green light shall not be shown on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side. A pilot-vessel of such a class as to be obliged to go alongside of a...
Page 232 - A steam vessel hearing, apparently forward of her beam, the fog signal of a vessel the position of which is not ascertained shall, so far as the circumstances of the case admit, stop her engines, and then navigate with caution until danger of collision is over.
Page 237 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, 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 lookout, 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 232 - 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.
Page 231 - 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.
Page xliv - It may be doubted whether any of the evils proceeding from the feebleness of the federal government contributed more to that great revolution which introduced the present system than the deep and general conviction that commerce ought to be regulated by congress.
Page 233 - 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.