Port Series, Issue 40U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 - Harbors |
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... ship is moored to electrically - operated towing locomotives which run on tracks on both sides , pulling the ship through and keeping it in position so that it will not injure itself or the mechanism of the locks . Once out of the Gatun ...
... ship is moored to electrically - operated towing locomotives which run on tracks on both sides , pulling the ship through and keeping it in position so that it will not injure itself or the mechanism of the locks . Once out of the Gatun ...
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... ship passes through Pedro Miguel Locks , a single flight of double chambers . This flight of locks is 0.72 mile long , with a drop of 31 feet to the level of Miraflores Lake . After passing through Miraflores Lake in a channel 750 feet ...
... ship passes through Pedro Miguel Locks , a single flight of double chambers . This flight of locks is 0.72 mile long , with a drop of 31 feet to the level of Miraflores Lake . After passing through Miraflores Lake in a channel 750 feet ...
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... ships docking at Docks 4 , 6 , 7 , and 8 on account of the outline of the channel and inner harbor basin . An outgoing or falling tide causes a steady set directly toward the face of these docks , which during the dry season months is ...
... ships docking at Docks 4 , 6 , 7 , and 8 on account of the outline of the channel and inner harbor basin . An outgoing or falling tide causes a steady set directly toward the face of these docks , which during the dry season months is ...
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... ship anchorage are designated : The following areas for Atlantic end.- Area immediately west of Canal channel line , bounded on the south by line joining gas buoy No. 4 and a point A , 1,600 yards due west of gas buoy No. 4 ; on the ...
... ship anchorage are designated : The following areas for Atlantic end.- Area immediately west of Canal channel line , bounded on the south by line joining gas buoy No. 4 and a point A , 1,600 yards due west of gas buoy No. 4 ; on the ...
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... ship anchorage area in Gatun Lake is shown on the location map of the Panama Canal Zone facing page 1. The merchant ship anchorage areas and anchorages for vessels carrying explosives at the Atlantic and Pacific entrances to the Canal ...
... ship anchorage area in Gatun Lake is shown on the location map of the Panama Canal Zone facing page 1. The merchant ship anchorage areas and anchorages for vessels carrying explosives at the Atlantic and Pacific entrances to the Canal ...
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50 cents 750 Lighted amperes anchorage Atlantic available to vessels barge bills of lading bunkering C.L. minimum Canal authorities Canal Zone waters cars city mains Colon consigned crane Cristobal delivered delivery discharge docks dry dock explosives Face feet FLOOR AREA Fort Amador Fort Randolph forwarding agent fraction thereof freight fuel oil Gaillard Cut Gatun Lake Governor handling harbor hose from city hour or fraction Isthmus LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED loading Lower side feet MADDEN LAKE mains at rate minimum charge Navigation Open wharf operated outlets Pacific Panama Canal Panama Railroad Company passengers piers pilotage port captain Portable equipment quarantine officer radio receiving and forwarding repairs Republic of Panama rules and regulations seamen ship shipment Steamship stevedoring storage surface track terminal ports tolls tons Total traffic transfer cargo TRANSIT SHEDS transiting the Canal TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION Union Oil Company United States Army unloading Upper side feet visa wharfage wharves
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Page 50 - After the expiration of the free time allowed, a charge of $1 per car per day, or fraction of a day, will be made until car is released.
Page 9 - States" as used in this section includes the Canal Zone, and all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Page 19 - Only such officials as are authorized in the several foreign countries and in the United States to measure vessels and to issue tonnage certificates for purposes of national registry, and such other officials as are authorized by the President of the United .States, or by those acting for him, to measure vessels and to issue Panama Canal tonnage certificates, shall have authority to measure vessels for Panama navigation or to issue Panama tonnage certificates.
Page 25 - No containers of explosives shall be loaded above the side of any crate or basket nor shall rope-net slings be so loaded as to prevent the sling from encompassing the entire load on its top side. Explosives shall not be handled roughly. They must be hoisted and lowered carefully and only deposited or lowered onto a mattress.
Page 52 - Neither the carrier nor the ship shall in any event be or become liable for any loss or damage to or in connection with the transportation of goods in an amount exceeding $500 per package lawful money of the United States, •or in case of goods not shipped in packages, per customary freight unit...
Page 8 - Part n hereof shall be required to present an identifying travel document in the nature of a passport, showing his nationality and identity and bearing his photograph, before he may be granted shore leave for any purpose, unless the possession of such an identifying travel document is waived by the Secretary of State, except that for such a seaman arriving at a port in the Virgin Islands the Governor thereof may grant such...
Page 8 - States as passengers or workaways solely in pursuit of their calling as seamen, shall be exempt from the crew-list visa or other non-immigrant visa requirements for such period and under such conditions as the Secretary of State, in his discretion, may prescribe if they arrive in the United States under the following circumstances: (a) Shipwrecked or castaway seamen rescued by, or transferred at sea to, a vessel bound for an American port; (b) Seamen who are American consular passengers or who are...