✨ Admiralty Navigation Rules
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 118
FOG SIGNALS
All Sea-going Sailing Vessels, when under way, shall in all cases of Fog, use when on the
Starboard Tack a Fog Horn, and when on the Port Tack shall Ring a Bell. These signals
shall be sounded once at least every five minutes.
SAILING PILOT VESSELS are to carry only a White Light at the Mast-head, and are to
exhibit a Flare-up Light every 15 minutes, in accordance with Trinity House regulation.
VESSELS AT ANCHOR.
All Sea-going Vessels when at anchor in roadsteads or fairways shall, between sunset and
sunrise, exhibit where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull,
a White Light in a Globular Lantern, of 8 inches in diameter, and so constructed as to show a
clear, uniform, and unbroken light all round the horizon, at a distance of at least 1 mile.
Given under our hands this 24th day of February 1858.
By Command of their Lordships,
W. G. ROMAINE,
Secretary,
CHARLES WOOD.
R. S. DUNDAS.
The following Diagrams are intended to illustrate the use of the Lights carried by vessels at
sea, and the manner in which they indicate to the vessel which sees them the position
and description of the vessel which carries them :-
FIRST.-When both Red and Green Lights are seen :
A sees a Red and Green Light ahead ;-A knows that a vessel is approaching her on
a course directly opposite to her own, as B ;
[Diagram showing A, B with Green above Red]
If A sees a White Mast-head Light above the other two, she knows that B is a
steam-vessel.
SECOND.-When the Red, and not the Green light, is seen :
A sees a Red Light ahead or on the bow ; A knows that either,
1, a vessel is approaching her on her port bow, as B ;
or, 2, a vessel is crossing in some direction to port, as D D D.
[Diagram showing A, B (Red), and three D's (Red)]
If A sees a White Mast-head Light above the Red Light, A knows that the vessel is a
steam vessel, and is either approaching her in the same direction as B, or is crossing to
port in some direction as D D D.
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NZ Gazette 1858, No 24
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Publication of Admiralty Regulations for Lights and Fog Signals
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🚂 Transport & Communications24 February 1858
Admiralty, shipping, maritime law, collision prevention, Steam Vessels, Sailing Vessels, Fog Signals, Marine Department
- W. G. Romaine, Secretary
- Charles Wood
- R. S. Dundas