United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 |
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... marked , as far as practicable , by different descriptions of buoys . Principal channels will be marked with nun buoys ; secondary chan- nels will be marked with can buoys ; and minor channels with spar buoys . When there is but one ...
... marked , as far as practicable , by different descriptions of buoys . Principal channels will be marked with nun buoys ; secondary chan- nels will be marked with can buoys ; and minor channels with spar buoys . When there is but one ...
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... marked , and there are two high waters and two low waters each lunar day throughout the month , though the tides are still affected by some diurnal inequality . Tidal currents . - Two tidal streams enter the Sulu Sea and pas- sages ...
... marked , and there are two high waters and two low waters each lunar day throughout the month , though the tides are still affected by some diurnal inequality . Tidal currents . - Two tidal streams enter the Sulu Sea and pas- sages ...
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... marked by an 8 - foot ( 2.4 m . ) rock lying about 1 mile south by east from the town and 34 mile offshore . There is deep water between the reef and the shore . Small boats land on the beach in front of the town , but this becomes ...
... marked by an 8 - foot ( 2.4 m . ) rock lying about 1 mile south by east from the town and 34 mile offshore . There is deep water between the reef and the shore . Small boats land on the beach in front of the town , but this becomes ...
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... marked by a red nun buoy in 5 fathoms ( 9.1 m . ) off its western edge . From the recommended anchorage in the outer harbor steer for the lighthouse and around its southern and eastern sides at a dis- tance of from 150 to 200 yards and ...
... marked by a red nun buoy in 5 fathoms ( 9.1 m . ) off its western edge . From the recommended anchorage in the outer harbor steer for the lighthouse and around its southern and eastern sides at a dis- tance of from 150 to 200 yards and ...
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... submerged and rising rapidly from deep water . The southern point of the cove , marked by a fixed red light visible 7 miles , is low and rounding , with a submerged coral reef about 3 mile LUZON , MINDORO , AND VISAYAS 25.
... submerged and rising rapidly from deep water . The southern point of the cove , marked by a fixed red light visible 7 miles , is low and rounding , with a submerged coral reef about 3 mile LUZON , MINDORO , AND VISAYAS 25.
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United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands ... U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Vista completa - 1927 |
Términos y frases comunes
1/4 mile wide 1½ mile 12 fathoms 34 mile anchor anchorage bank Batan Island berth Biliran Bohol buoy Cebu channel chart church clear and steep-to coast trends coral reef cove Daco dangers deep water distance east eastern entrance eastern side edge entering entrance point fathoms 11 fathoms 3.6 fathoms 5.5 fathoms 7.3 fathoms 9.1 feet fringed harbor heavily wooded high water hills Iloilo Iloilo River Islet land least depth Leyte low water Luzon lying mangroves Manila Marinduque Masbate mile from shore miles eastward miles southeastward miles southward Mindoro mouth muddy bottom narrow navigation nearly northeast monsoon northern entrance northward northwest Panay Island Pasig River pass patch pilotage Point the coast Poro Island Port prominent reef extends River rock awash rocky sand beach sandy shoal shore reef small vessels south-southwestward southeast southern southwest steep-to steer Strait surrounded tide town typhoon vicinity village visible ward western westward winds
Pasajes populares
Página 347 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on...
Página 351 - ... (c) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Página 346 - steam vessel " shall include any vessel propelled by machinery. A vessel is " under way," within the meaning of these rules, when she is not at anchor, or made fast to the shore, or aground. RULES CONCERNING LIGHTS AND so FORTH The word " visible " in these rules when applied to lights shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere.
Página 351 - ... shall be provided with an efficient whistle or siren, sounded by steam or by some substitute for steam, so placed that the sound may not be intercepted by any obstruction, and with an efficient fog horn, to be sounded by mechanical means, and also with an efficient bell.
Página 350 - Sailing 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.
Página 353 - I am directing my course to port." Three short blasts to mean, "My engines are going at full speed astern." No VESSEL, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, TO NEGLECT PROPER PRECAUTIONS ART. 29. Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution that may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen or by the special circumstances...
Página 347 - The highest and lowest of these lights shall be red, and the middle light shall be white, and they shall be of such a character as to be visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least two miles.
Página 351 - Risk of collision can, when circumstances permit, be ascertained by carefully watching the compass bearing of an approaching vessel. If the bearing does not appreciably change, such risk should be deemed to exist.
Página 347 - These two lights shall be so placed in line with the keel that one shall be at least 15 feet higher than the other and in such a position with reference to each other that the lower light shall be forward of the upper one. The vertical distance between these lights shall be less than the horizontal distance.
Página 347 - ... if the length of the tow, measuring from the stern of the towing vessel to the stern of the last vessel towed, exceeds 600 feet.