Port Series, Issue 37U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - Harbors |
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Page vii
... vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports . Acknowledgement is made of the assistance rendered by various port organ- isations , shipping and transportation companies , facility ...
... vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports . Acknowledgement is made of the assistance rendered by various port organ- isations , shipping and transportation companies , facility ...
Page xiv
... vessels engaged in domestic and foreign trades of the United States . Under the cooperative arrangement with the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors , the revision of this volume on the Ports of Everett , Bellingham , and Port ...
... vessels engaged in domestic and foreign trades of the United States . Under the cooperative arrangement with the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors , the revision of this volume on the Ports of Everett , Bellingham , and Port ...
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... vessels and pleasure craft , is from the north by way of Deception Pass or Swinomish Slough , through Skagit Bay and Sar- atoga Passage . Deception Pass is about 2 miles in length and is narrow with depths ranging from 9 fathoms upward ...
... vessels and pleasure craft , is from the north by way of Deception Pass or Swinomish Slough , through Skagit Bay and Sar- atoga Passage . Deception Pass is about 2 miles in length and is narrow with depths ranging from 9 fathoms upward ...
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... vessel . ( iv ) When draw cannot be opened immediately , or when it is open and must be closed immediately . A red flag by day or a red lighted lantern by night , swung in vertical circles at arm's length in full sight of the vessel ...
... vessel . ( iv ) When draw cannot be opened immediately , or when it is open and must be closed immediately . A red flag by day or a red lighted lantern by night , swung in vertical circles at arm's length in full sight of the vessel ...
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... vessels entering Everett are usually boarded for the various official inspections on arrival at their berths . No license or permission is required to enter the port . Vessels are received at all hours . The Customs Service of the ...
... vessels entering Everett are usually boarded for the various official inspections on arrival at their berths . No license or permission is required to enter the port . Vessels are received at all hours . The Customs Service of the ...
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AREA FOR CARGO available to vessels barges Bellingham Bay boom British Columbia CAPACITY PER SQUARE CARGO SQ.FT charges commodities Company conveyor Corps of Engineers crane Creek Waterway DEPTH ALONGSIDE docks Engineers Port Code equipment Face feet feet wide fish floating Hand extinguishers Hewitt Avenue Hydrants LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED LOAD CAPACITY LOCATION ON WATER Log Dump Lumber marine railway Maritime Administration MECHANICAL HANDLING FACILITIES Milwaukee Mooring North side feet Northern Pacific Railway Northern Railway NUMBER ON MAP Open pile operated Pacific Coast ports Paul and Pacific Port Angeles Port Gardner Bay Port of Bellingham Port of Everett Puget Sound rail RAILWAY CONNECTIONS rates Receipt REFERENCE NUMBER REGULARLY USING TERMINAL repair Seattle shipments short tons Snohomish River SQUARE FOOT LBS STEAMSHIP LINES REGULARLY surface track Tariff timber-decked tons trade trestle trucks TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION USABLE BERTHING SPACE Wash Washington waterfront Weyerhaeuser wharf wharves Whatcom Creek WIDTH OF APRON wood
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Page vii - ... to investigate any other matter that may tend to promote and encourage the use by vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports...
Page xiv - The commission for good cause shown may allow changes without requiring the thirty days' notice under such conditions as it may prescribe. No corporation or municipality shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than the rates and charges applicable to such...
Page vii - ... to advise with communities regarding the appropriate location and plan of construction of wharves, piers, and water terminals ; to investigate the practicability and advantages of harbor, river, and port improvements in connection with foreign and...
Page xiv - ... receiving the prescribed signal: Provided, That the draw shall not be opened when a train is approaching so closely that it cannot safely be stopped before reaching the bridge, or when a passenger or mail train is approaching within sight or hearing of the drav/ tender.
Page xiv - ... are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or in anywise in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine and prescribe the just and reasonable rates and charges...
Page 71 - LAOS, for the common good of shippers and carriers, by providing just and economical cooperation between the steamship lines operating in such trades...
Page xiv - ... Commission, or that any rule, regulation, practice, or contract affecting such rate, charge, or classification is unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, the Commission shall determine the just and reasonable rate, charge, classification, rule, regulation, practice, or contract to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order...
Page xiv - Two long distinct blasts of a whistle, horn or megaphone, or two loud and distinct strokes of a bell, to be repeated at regular intervals until acknowledged by the vessel.
Page xiv - And whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing, had upon its own motion or upon complaint...
Page xiv - When fog prevails by day or by night the draw tender, after repeating the call signal, shall toll a bell continuously during the approach and passage of the vessel.