North Sea Pilot (eastern Shores): From Dunkerque to the Skaw |
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abreast Amrum anchorage Balje Bank bearing Borkum Bremerhaven Brouwershaven buoyage canal channel chart coast conical buoys Cuxhaven Deep distance east eastern eastward Elbe elevated entrance exhibited fathoms feet above high feet at low feet high fixed red fixed white light flag Fog signal Geestemunde group flashing Hanstholm harbor Heligoland Hellevoetsluis high water hoisted Horn Reefs hours after high hours before high Island Jade knots leading lights least depth lifeboat light buoy Light Vessel Lighthouse lights in line low water mast mole moored navigation night Norderney North Sea northeastward northward occulting white light Ostende outer pilot quay red buoy red light river Schelde Schouwen seaward sector shoal shore showing an occulting signal station Skaw south side southward spar buoys springs rise steer Storm signals surmounted telegraph Texel tidal streams tide top mark tower visible Vlieland Wangeroog weather Weser western Westkapelle westward Wielingen winds yards Zuider Zee
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Page 36 - Art. 31- When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore, the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, viz. : — ' In the daytime — 1. A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute. 2. The International Code signal of distress indicated by NC 3. The distant signal, consisting of a square flag, having either above or below it a ball or anything resembling a ball. 4. A continuous...
Page 48 - Pilot vessels, when engaged on their station on pilotage duty, shall not show the lights required for other vessels, but shall carry a white light at the masthead, visible all round the horizon, and shall also exhibit a flare-up light or flare-up lights at short intervals, which shall never exceed fifteen minutes.
Page 48 - On the near approach of or to other vessels they shall have their side lights 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 19 - For boarding a wreck, it is recommended to pour oil overboard to windward of her before going alongside. The effect in this case must greatly depend upon the set of the current and the circumstances of the depth of water.
Page 51 - ... is to be understood boats not protected from the entry of sea water by means of a continuous deck, when engaged in any fishing at night, with outlying tackle extending not more than one hundred and fifty feet horizontally from the boat into the seaway, shall carry one all-round white light. Open boats, when fishing at night, with outlying tackle extending more than...
Page 51 - ... lights. Should they, however, not carry it, they shall show in the same position (in the direction of the net or gear) a white...
Page 48 - A pilot vessel of such a class as to be obliged to go alongside of a vessel to put a pilot on board may show the white light instead of carrying it at the masthead, and may, instead of the colored lights above mentioned, have at hand, ready for use, a lantern with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other, to be used as prescribed above.
Page 51 - Vessels and boats, except open boats as defined in subdivision (a), when fishing with drift nets, shall, so long as the nets are wholly or partly in the water, carry two white lights where they can best be seen. Such lights shall be placed...
Page 4 - For vessels drawing less than 18 feet the edge of the sanding serves as a well-marked danger line. Charts on which no fathom curves are marked must especially be regarded with caution, as indicating that soundings were too scanty and the bottom too uneven to enable the curves to be drawn with accuracy. Isolated soundings, shoaler than surrounding depths, should always be avoided, especially if ringed around, as it is doubtful how closely the spot may have been examined and whether the least depth...
Page 17 - The gradual change in the variation must not be forgotten in laying down positions by bearing on charts. The magnetic compasses placed on the charts for the purpose of facilitating plotting become in time slightly in error, and in some cases, such as with small scales, or when the lines are long, the displacement of position from neglect of this change may be of importance. The compasses are...