ARTICLE 27. USE OF PRIVATE TUGS. SECTION 1. Shipowners are authorized to have their ships towed or convoyed by their own tugs, or tugs belonging to third parties, under their entire responsibility. Such tugs must be approved of by the canal company. SEC. 2. Ships towed or convoyed by approved tugs pay 50 centimes towage dues per ton. SEC. 3. Approved tugs towing or convoying ships belonging to their owners are free of any charge. When they go through the canal either for the purpose of meeting ships of their owners which they are about to tow or convoy, or in order to return to their home berth after having towed or convoyed the said ships, tugs are not liable to payment of the tonnage dues, but they must take a pilot on board. They must carry neither goods nor passengers; the fact of having on board passengers or goods renders them liable to the payment of all dues and charges to which ships in transit are subject. SEC. 4. Approved tugs employed in towing or convoying ships not belonging to their owners pay the same dues and charges as ships in transit for every passage through the canal. SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the special treatment above stipulated, tugs belonging to private owners are subject to the strict observance of all other articles of the regulations relative to ships under way or berthed. Plus, per hour of diving proper, reckoned from the moment the diver enters the water to the moment he leaves it... 6. 25 NOTE. For tugboats, hire is reckoned from the time of first firing; for the other appliances, from the time they leave the depot. Hire ceases when they reenter the depot. The charges for towage of the appliances have to be paid over and above the amount for hire. ROADS AND HARBOR PILOT SIGNALS. 1. PORT SAID. SIGNALS TO BE MADE USE OF IN THE ROADS. By day: Flag S of the International Code or national pilot flag..... .Send me a pilot to enter the harbor. SIGNALS TO BE MADE BY THE HARBOR. A. If the weather outside does not prevent the pilot boat from going out: N. B.-In a rough sea preventing the pilot from coming aboard, the By night: A blue light... B. If the weather outside prevents the pilot boat from going out: By day: Signal TJ P of the International Code (hoisted at the Port Said electric lighthouse)...... By night: A red rocket. Do. . Follow the pilot boat. The pilot will The pilot boat can not go out. SIGNALS TO BE MADE USE OF IN THE HARBOR. By day: Flag S of the International Code or national pilot flag..... .Send me a pilot. N. B.-Pilots for navigation in the canal are due on board only 1 hour and 30 minutes after the signal has been hoisted. 2. PORT THEWFIK. SIGNALS TO BE MADE USE OF IN THE ROADS. Flag S of the International Code..... Flag T of the International Code. .Send me a pilot, as I wish to moor at the dock buoys in Port Thewfik. I give up my intention of mooring at the dock buoys in Port Thewfik. N. B.-Ships made fast on the buoys of the dock are not allowed to get underway for the roads before having received a verbal order from the company's officials. APPENDIX XXII. TRAFFIC REGULATIONS AND CODE OF SIGNALS OF THE KAISER WILHELM CANAL.1 [Issued by the Imperial Canal Administration.] SECTION 1.-General rules. 1. Every master of a vessel using the canal must keep on board a copy of these regulations, which are obtainable on request. They govern the relations between the canal office and the master or owner of the vessel. The master is responsible for the exact compliance with these regulations, as well as with the customhouse regulations on the part of the entire personnel of his vessel. Differences arising between the canal office and the master or owner or part owner of a vessel passing through the canal are adjudicated in the first instance by the "Landgericht" at Kiel, unless the case comes within the jurisdiction of an inland court. 2. Passage through the canal by day or night is granted to vessels of all nations on payment of the authorized fees tabulated at the end of these regulations, or on presentation of a passage ticket. (See Appendix IV in Report on Panama Canal Traffic and Tolls.) Vessels must not exceed the following dimensions: Draft..... Length Masthead above water line.. 8 meters, or 26.24 feet. 20 meters, or 65.60 feet. 135 meters, or 443.00 feet. 40 meters, or 131.20 feet. Foreign war ships and other military vessels must obtain permission through diplomatic channels before entering the canal. 3. The canal office reserves the right to refuse passage entirely, or to grant it only under certain conditions (see also No. 5), in the following cases: (a) Open or not fully decked vessels of less than 0.50 meters freeboard. (b) Vessels carrying a deck load impairing their stability or ability to maneuver. (c) Vessels known to have poor steering ability in the canal or objectionable on account of their condition or crew. 4. Floating devices differing from the ordinary form of a ship are not allowed to use the canal without being granted a special permit on each trip by the imperial canal office, and not without adhering strictly to rules and directions. Rafts are not admitted under any circum stances. 5. Steamers ordinarily pass under their own power, but in some cases, especially if the steamer's velocity averages less than 8 kilometers per hour, the management (traffic manager, harbor masters) can order towing, or can send one or more tugboats to the vessel's assistance. In such event the authorized towage fees must be paid. The term "steamer" in these regulations includes all machine-propelled vessels, electric, gasoline, petroleum, etc.2 6. The following classes of sailing vessels are subject to towage: (a) Those of any size going through the entire canal. (b) Those of more than 35 gross register tons going to or coming from stations on the canal or communicating water routes. 1 Translated by Chaplain Franz J. Feinler, First Infantry, U. S. Army. Special rules for the towing of vessels through the canal are given in Section VIII, Nos. 46-60, of this Appendix. See also Appendix IV in the Report on Panama Traffic and Tolls. |