Code of Federal Regulations: Containing a Codification of Documents of General Applicability and Future Effect as of December 31, 1948, with Ancillaries and IndexDivision of the Federal Register, the National Archives, 1961 - Administrative law |
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Page 190
... approaching vessels . The area of buoy body visible between the two bands shall be white . ( c ) Geometric shapes shall be placed on the white portion of the buoy body and shall be colored international or- ange . The authorized ...
... approaching vessels . The area of buoy body visible between the two bands shall be white . ( c ) Geometric shapes shall be placed on the white portion of the buoy body and shall be colored international or- ange . The authorized ...
Page 206
... approaching vessel . Each red light shall show through a hor- izontal arc of 180 ° , and shall be securely mounted just below the outermost edge of the bridge span structure to show 90 ° on either side of a line parallel to the axis of ...
... approaching vessel . Each red light shall show through a hor- izontal arc of 180 ° , and shall be securely mounted just below the outermost edge of the bridge span structure to show 90 ° on either side of a line parallel to the axis of ...
Page 207
... approaching vessel . ( c ) Main channel . When necessary , the District Commander may prescribe that fixed bridges having two or more spans over a navigable channel shall have the main channel span marked with a set of three white ...
... approaching vessel . ( c ) Main channel . When necessary , the District Commander may prescribe that fixed bridges having two or more spans over a navigable channel shall have the main channel span marked with a set of three white ...
Page 208
... approaching vessel the draw span when closed will display two red lights , one at each end of the span and when open to navigation will display two green lights , one at each end of the span . Each lantern shall show alternate red and ...
... approaching vessel the draw span when closed will display two red lights , one at each end of the span and when open to navigation will display two green lights , one at each end of the span . Each lantern shall show alternate red and ...
Page 209
... approaching vessel . ( c ) Axis lights . Every lift bridge which has at least one pier provided with a protection pier shall be lighted so that the intersection of the lift span axis with the channel side of each pier adja- cent to the ...
... approaching vessel . ( c ) Axis lights . Every lift bridge which has at least one pier provided with a protection pier shall be lighted so that the intersection of the lift span axis with the channel side of each pier adja- cent to the ...
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active duty advance notice required agency controlling aids to navigation amended by CGFR anchor anchorage applicant Atlantic Ocean Board bridge shall keep Buoy call signal Captain channel Chesapeake Bay Coast Guard District controlling the bridge craft danger zone District Commander District Engineer draw tender drawbridge drawspan dredging east enlistment feet firing Gulf of Mexico Harbor highway bridge Island Lake least 24 hours line bearing line ranging long blast longitude Marine Inspection Zone miles moored nautical miles Naval navigable waters Notice to Mariners officer opened immediately operation owner Pacific Ocean paragraph passage of vessels Pee Dee River person pier point of beginning Port prescribed red light regulations Reservists River sels shore short blasts side sound signals southeasterly Stat steam vessel Subpart thence due thence to latitude tion tude U.S. Coast Guard watercraft whistle or horn white light yards
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Page 217 - 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 216 - 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 215 - If, when steam vessels are approaching each other, either vessel fails to understand the course or intention of the other, from any cause, the vessel so in doubt shall immediately signify the same by giving several short and rapid blasts, not less than four, of the steam whistle.
Page 216 - ... and no subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear. As by day the overtaking vessel...
Page 217 - 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 216 - When steam vessels are moved from their docks or berths, and other boats are liable to pass from any direction toward them, they shall give the same signal as in the case of vessels meeting at a bend, but immediately after clearing the berths so as to be fully in sight they shall be governed by the steering and sailing rules.
Page 299 - Rule 2 (a) (i) and (ii), two red lights in a vertical line one over the other not less than 6 feet apart, and of such a character as to be visible all round the horizon at a distance of at least 2 miles.
Page 245 - ... so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, and so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on their respective sides.
Page 245 - ... 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 242 - SITUATION In this situation the green light only will be visible to each, the screens preventing the red light from being seen. They are therefore passing to starboard of each other, which is rulable in this situation, each pilot having previously signified his intention by two blasts of the whistle.