The sailor's pocket bookGriffin, 1885 - 563 páginas |
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Admiralty Agulhas current altitude anchor barometer Bay of Bengal beach bearing binnacle Blue Ensign boats boiler buoys Cape Cape Horn centre Channel chart chronometers coal coast colour corrected course cylinder danger deviation diameter direction distance Docks engines fathoms feet flag Floating Graving Dock Gulf Stream heeling error high water hoisted horizon inches iron Island knots land latitude length Levuka light longitude low water magnetic marked mast Masthead Angles mean effective pressure means measured meridian miles minutes Monsoon Nautical nautical miles navigation northern hemisphere oars observed Ocean officers ounces parallel Patent Slip piston position pressure rise round Royal running S.W. Monsoon sailing sailor screw sextant ship ship's head shore Signals soundings Standard Compass staysail steam Table Tael taken temperature tides tonnage tons troops valve vertical vessel weather weight West wind yacht yards
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Página 71 - ... abaft the beam on the starboard side ; and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least two miles : (c) On the...
Página 75 - ... 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.
Página 86 - ... such assistance as may be practicable and as may be necessary in order to save them from any danger caused by the...
Página 75 - A vessel which is close-hauled on the port tack shall keep out of the way of a vessel which is close-hauled on the starboard tack. (c) 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.
Página 76 - 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.
Página 71 - ... uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 20 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light 10...
Página 73 - ... shall be exhibited in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side.
Página 71 - ... points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. (c) On the...
Página 75 - ... which must, if both keep on their respective courses, pass clear of each other. The only...
Página 71 - ... from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.