The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and ResponsibilitiesRiesenberg, Felix
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The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities
Riesenberg, Felix
Merchant marine -- United States; Navigation; Sailors
_Second._ If sailing vessels, shall carry a white light in a lantern, so
constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light all around
the horizon, and shall also, on the approach of or to other vessels,
show where it can best be seen a white flare-up light or torch in
sufficient time to prevent collision.
All lights mentioned in subdivision (_d_) first and second shall be
visible at a distance of at least two miles.
(_e_) Oyster dredgers and other vessels fishing with dredge nets shall
carry and show the same lights as trawlers.
(_f_) Fishing vessels and fishing boats may at any time use a flare-up
light in addition to the lights which they are by this article required
to carry and show, and they may also use working lights.
(_g_) Every fishing vessel and every fishing boat under one hundred and
fifty feet in length, when at anchor, shall exhibit a white light
visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.
Every fishing vessel of one hundred and fifty feet in length or upward,
when at anchor, shall exhibit a white light visible all around the
horizon at a distance of at least one mile, and shall exhibit a second
light as provided for vessels of such length by article eleven.
Should any such vessel, whether under one hundred and fifty feet in
length or of one hundred and fifty feet in length or upward, be attached
to a net or other fishing gear, she shall on the approach of other
vessels show an additional white light at least three feet below the
anchor light, and at a horizontal distance of at least five feet away
from it in the direction of the net or gear.
(_h_) If a vessel or boat when fishing becomes stationary in consequence
of her gear getting fast to a rock or other obstruction, she shall in
daytime haul down the day signal required by subdivision (_k_); at night
show the light or lights prescribed for a vessel at anchor; and during
fog, mist, falling snow, or heavy rain storms make the signal prescribed
for a vessel at anchor. (See subdivision (_d_) and the last paragraph of
article fifteen.)
(_i_) In fog, mist, falling snow, or heavy rain storms drift-net vessels
attached to their nets, and vessels when trawling, dredging, or fishing
with any kind of drag net, and vessels line fishing with their lines
out, shall, if of twenty tons gross tonnage or upward, respectively, at
intervals of not more than one minute make a blast; if steam vessels,
with the whistle or siren, and if sailing vessels, with the fog-horn,
each blast to be followed by ringing the bell. Fishing vessels and boats
of less than twenty tons gross tonnage shall not be obliged to give the
above-mentioned signals; but if they do not, they shall make some other
efficient sound signal at intervals of not more than one minute.
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