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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... tons . The Canadian steamer " Frontenac " was built during the same year . But the first steamer built on Lake Erie , for up - lake service , was the " Walk - in - the - Water , " built at Buffalo in 1818. This steamer is de- scribed on ...
... tons . The Canadian steamer " Frontenac " was built during the same year . But the first steamer built on Lake Erie , for up - lake service , was the " Walk - in - the - Water , " built at Buffalo in 1818. This steamer is de- scribed on ...
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... tons . The owners of this great steamboat thought none of the lake men would be capable of handling her and brought a master from the North river . This master promptly resigned his position after encountering one of Lake Erie's vicious ...
... tons . The owners of this great steamboat thought none of the lake men would be capable of handling her and brought a master from the North river . This master promptly resigned his position after encountering one of Lake Erie's vicious ...
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... tons . The first year the canal was opened at the Soo , 1855 , 14,500 tons of freight passed through . Ten years later , 1865 , this had increased to 180,000 tons , in 1875 , to 833,000 tons , in 1885 to 3,250,000 tons , in 1895 to ...
... tons . The first year the canal was opened at the Soo , 1855 , 14,500 tons of freight passed through . Ten years later , 1865 , this had increased to 180,000 tons , in 1875 , to 833,000 tons , in 1885 to 3,250,000 tons , in 1895 to ...
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... ton , which was gradually reduced to 22 cents . The United States employ about 95 men in the operating of the canals at the Soo . THE WELLAND CANAL . The Welland canal connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and overcomes the rapids of the ...
... ton , which was gradually reduced to 22 cents . The United States employ about 95 men in the operating of the canals at the Soo . THE WELLAND CANAL . The Welland canal connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and overcomes the rapids of the ...
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... tons , with a draft of 12 feet . The estimated cost of the improvement is $ 101,000,000 . Vessels using this canal will have no spars or high upper works , as the bridges will remain fixed . LIGHTHOUSES . There are 200 American ...
... tons , with a draft of 12 feet . The estimated cost of the improvement is $ 101,000,000 . Vessels using this canal will have no spars or high upper works , as the bridges will remain fixed . LIGHTHOUSES . There are 200 American ...
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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...