The Lake Pilots' Handbook: Useful Knowledge Pertaining to the Great Lakes and Great Lakes' Piloting that Should be Useful to the Professional as Well as to the BeginnerRiverside printing Company, 1907 - 230 páginas |
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... Buffalo when the brig " John Kenzie " brought in 3,000 bushels of wheat . The first steamers from Buffalo ventured only as far as Detroit . The first locomotive used in Chicago was carried there in a sail vessel in 1837 . The first ...
... Buffalo when the brig " John Kenzie " brought in 3,000 bushels of wheat . The first steamers from Buffalo ventured only as far as Detroit . The first locomotive used in Chicago was carried there in a sail vessel in 1837 . The first ...
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... Buffalo in 1818 , is gen- erally spoken of as the first steamer to sail the Great Lakes , but , as a matter of fact , two steamers were built on Lake Ontario in 1616 . These were the Canadian steamer Frontenac and the American steam- er ...
... Buffalo in 1818 , is gen- erally spoken of as the first steamer to sail the Great Lakes , but , as a matter of fact , two steamers were built on Lake Ontario in 1616 . These were the Canadian steamer Frontenac and the American steam- er ...
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... Buffalo to Duluth - 980 miles ; Buffalo to Chicago - 890 miles . LAKE SUPERIOR . Largest expanse of fresh water in the world . The water of Lake Superior is chemically pure . Area 31,800 square miles ; 1,500 miles of coast . Greatest ...
... Buffalo to Duluth - 980 miles ; Buffalo to Chicago - 890 miles . LAKE SUPERIOR . Largest expanse of fresh water in the world . The water of Lake Superior is chemically pure . Area 31,800 square miles ; 1,500 miles of coast . Greatest ...
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... Buffalo with Albany . There are 72 locks and the total lift is 568 feet . The work of construction began in 1817 and the canal was opened in 1825. The original cost was $ 7,602,000 but improvements have brought the cost to date up to ...
... Buffalo with Albany . There are 72 locks and the total lift is 568 feet . The work of construction began in 1817 and the canal was opened in 1825. The original cost was $ 7,602,000 but improvements have brought the cost to date up to ...
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... Buffalo can overcome the rapids at Buffalo by taking the ship lock at Black Rock . This leads into Black Rock harbor and thence to Buffalo harbor . The lock is 200 feet long and 36 feet wide . Work is now in progress to enlarge and ...
... Buffalo can overcome the rapids at Buffalo by taking the ship lock at Black Rock . This leads into Black Rock harbor and thence to Buffalo harbor . The lock is 200 feet long and 36 feet wide . Work is now in progress to enlarge and ...
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The Lake Pilots' Handbook: Useful Knowledge Pertaining to the Great Lakes ... George Trimble Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 80 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Página 84 - Art. 17. When two sailing vessels are approaching one another, so as to involve risk of collision, one of them shall keep out of the way of the other...
Página 72 - Every vessel coming up with another vessel from any direction more than two points abaft her beam, that is, in such a position, with reference to the vessel which she is overtaking that at night she would be unable to see either of that vessel's side-lights, shall be deemed to be an overtaking vessel...
Página 82 - Open fishing boats and other open boats shall not be required to carry the side lights required for other vessels ; but shall, if they do not carry such lights, carry a lantern having a green slide on the one side and a red slide on the other side ; and on the approach of or to other vessels, such lantern shall be exhibited in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side, nor the red light on the starboard side.
Página 92 - War to prescribe such rules and regulations for the use, administration, and navigation of any or all canals and similar works of navigation that now are, or that hereafter may be, owned, operated, or maintained by the United States as in his judgment the public necessity may require.
Página 61 - ... be the duty of the owner of such sunken craft to immediately mark it with a buoy or beacon during the day and a lighted lantern at night, and to maintain such marks until the sunken craft is removed or abandoned, and the neglect or failure of the said owner so to do shall be unlawful; and it shall be the duty of the owner of such sunken craft to commence the immediate removal of the same, and prosecute such removal diligently, and failure to do so shall be considered as an abandonment of such...
Página 84 - When two steam- vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Página 99 - ... vessel when she shall have arrived within half a mile of such curve or bend^ shall give a signal by one long blast of the...
Página 73 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard must be had to all dangers of navigation ; and due regard must also be had to any special circumstances which may exist in any particular case rendering a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Página 229 - TIME 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes =1 hour (hr.) 24...