Port and Terminal Facilities at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, 1941 |
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14 feet 35 feet A. C. current anchorage asphalt paved timber available to ves available to vessels Berthing space available Capacity per square Cerritos Channel City service current for lighting depressed tracks Depth of water East Basin Electric current available Face or end Feet Feet Feet Fire protection Foamite Harbor Belt Line Lighted or unlighted lines using terminal Location on water Long Beach Lower side Upper Lumber Main Channel Mechanical handling facilities Mormon Island Municipal wharf berth number on map Open pile wharf Open wharf Outer Harbor paved timber deck Petroleum pounds Railway connections Reference number sheds on pier Shore wharf side Upper side square foot Standard Oil Co station pier steam locomotive Steamship lines storage surface tracks Terminal Island terminal regularly total length tracks in rear Transit sheds Type of construction Union Oil Co Upper side Face water front Water supply available West Basin West side wharves Width of apron
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Page 4 - When, after a delay, as in 3 (c) the draw of the bridge can be opened and the vessel still desires to pass the draw tender shall give the signal prescribed in 3 (6) above, viz: raising and lowering a lighted lantern or a flag.
Page 4 - When the draw of the bridge cannot be opened immediately or when the bridge is open and is to be closed immediately, the draw tender shall reply by...
Page 3 - If the weather conditions are good and sound signals can be heard when a vessel approaches a drawbridge and desires to pass through the draw, three distinct blasts of a whistle, horn, or megaphone shall be sounded from the vessel when within reasonable hearing distance of the bridge.
Page 3 - The corporations or persons owning or controlling a drawbridge shall provide the same with the necessary tenders and the proper mechanical appliances for the safe, prompt, and efficient opening of the draw for the passage of vessels.
Page 3 - ... 3. Any vessel anchoring under circumstances of great emergency outside of the anchorage areas must be placed near the edge of the channel and in such position as not to interfere with the free navigation of the channel nor obstruct the approach to any pier nor impede the movement of any boat, and shall move away immediately after the emergency ceases, or upon notification by the captain of the port. 4.
Page 1 - Floats or buoys for marking anchors or moorings in place and fixed mooring piles or stakes are prohibited.
Page 3 - Explosives Anchorage," subject to the conditions stated in the note following the description of this anchorage. 5. The instructions of the Captain of the Port assigning vessels to parts of anchorage grounds suitable to their draft; requiring vessels to anchor bow and stern, or with two bow anchors, requiring shifting the anchorage of any vessel within any anchorage ground for the common safety or convenience; or for otherwise enforcing these rules and regulations; shall be promptly followed by owners,...
Page 3 - The person in charge of such vessel desiring to pass shall cause to be sounded, within reasonable hearing distance of the bridge,, repeating if necessary, and in time to give due notice to its operator, three long distinct blasts of a whistle, horn, or megaphone, or three loud and distinct strokes of a bell.
Page 2 - Harbor outside of the anchorage areas hereby defined and established. (2) Anchors must not be placed outside the anchorage areas, nor shall any vessel be so anchored that any portion of the hull or rigging shall at any time extend outside the boundaries of the anchorage area. (3) Any vessel anchoring under...
Page 3 - No vessels, other than those of the United States Government, shall anchor in any of the established anchorage areas nor in any other areas within the outer Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbors, as defined by the limits of the San Pedro breakwater, the detached breakwater, and the Long Beach breakwater, nor closer than...