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
A line drawn from Plymouth (Gurnet) Lighthouses 77½° (E. ⅛ S.), 16¼
miles, to Race Point Lighthouse.
Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, Narragansett Bay, Block
Island Sound, and Easterly entrance to Long Island Sound.
A line drawn from Chatham Lighthouses, Mass., 146° (S. by E. ¾ E.), 4⅜
miles, to Pollock Rip Slue Light Vessel; thence 142° (SSE. ⅛ E.), 12¾
miles, to Great Round Shoal Entrance Gas and Whistling Buoy (PS); thence
229° (SW. by W. ⅝ W.), 14½ miles, to Sankaty Head Lighthouse; from Smith
Point, Nantucket Island, 261° (W. ⅜ N.), 27 miles, to No Mans Land Gas
and Whistling Buoy, 2; thence 359° (N. by E. ⅛ E.), 8⅛ miles, to Gay
Head Lighthouse; thence 250° (W. ⅝ S.), 34½ miles, to Block Island
Southeast Lighthouse; thence 250½° (W. ⅝ S.), 14¾ miles, to Montauk
Point Lighthouse, on the easterly end of Long Island, N. Y.
New York Harbor.
A line drawn from Rockaway Point Coast Guard Station 159½° (S. by E.),
6¼ miles, to Ambrose Channel Light Vessel; thence 238½° (WSW. ⅛ W.), 8¼
miles, to Navesink (southerly) Lighthouse.
Philadelphia Harbor and Delaware Bay.
A line drawn from Cape May Lighthouse 200° (SSW. ½ W.), 8½ miles, to
Overfalls Light Vessel; thence 246¼° (WSW. ½ W.), 3⅛ miles, to Cape
Henlopen Lighthouse.
Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay.
A line drawn from Cape Charles Lighthouse 179½° (S. ½ W.) 10½ miles, to
Cape Henry Gas and Whistling Buoy, 2; thence 257° (W. ⅝ S.), 5 miles, to
Cape Henry Lighthouse.
Charleston Harbor.
A line drawn from Ferris Wheel, on Isle of Palms, 154° (SSE. ¼ E.), 7
miles, to Charleston Light Vessel; thence 259° (W. ⅞ S.), through
Charleston Whistling Buoy, 6 C, 7⅝ miles, until Charleston Lighthouse
bears 350° (N. ⅞ W.); thence 270° (W.), 2½ miles, to the beach of Folly
Island.
Savannah Harbor and Calibogue Sound.
A line drawn from Braddock Point, Hilton Head Island, 150½° (SSE. ⅝ E.),
9¾ miles, to Tybee Gas and Whistling Buoy, T (PS); thence 270° (W.), to
the beach of Tybee Island.
St. Simon Sound (Brunswick Harbor) and St. Andrew Sound.
From hotel on beach of St. Simon Island 15⁄16 mile 60° (NE. by E. ¼ E.),
from St. Simon Lighthouse, 130° (SE ½ E.), 6⅞ miles, to St. Simon Gas
and Whistling Buoy (PS); thence 194° (S. by W. ⅛ W.), 8¾ miles, to St.
Andrew Sound Bar Buoy (PS); thence 77° (W.), 4¾ miles, to the shore of
Little Cumberland Island.
St. Johns River, Fla.
A straight line from the outer end of the northerly jetty to the outer
end of the southerly jetty.
Florida Reefs and Keys.
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