New Zealand Gazette – 1927 – No. 67

Page 3011

✨ Maritime Navigation Rules



Sept. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3011

At night—

  1. A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute ;
  2. Flames on the vessel (as from a burning tar-barrel, oil-barrel, &c.) ;
  3. Rockets or shells, throwing stars of any colour or description, fired one at a time at short intervals ;
  4. A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus.

183. Rule of the Road :—

AIDS TO MEMORY.

In Four Verses, by the late Mr. THOMAS GRAY, C.B.

  1. Two steamships meeting.

    When both sidelights you see ahead—
    Port your helm and show your RED.

  2. Two Steamships passing.

    GREEN to GREEN—or, RED to RED—
    Perfect Safety—Go ahead !

  3. Two Steamships crossing. NOTE.—This is the position of greatest danger ; there is nothing for it but good look-out, caution, and judgment.

    If to your starboard RED appear,
    It is your duty to keep clear.
    To act as judgment says is proper—
    To Port—or Starboard—Back—or, Stop her.
    But when upon your Port is seen
    A Steamer’s Starboard Light of GREEN,
    There’s not so much for you to do,
    For GREEN to Port keeps clear of you.

All ships must keep a good look-out, and Steamships must stop and go astern, if necessary.

Both in safety and in doubt
Always keep a good look-out ;
In danger, with no room to turn,
Ease her, stop her, go astern.

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APPENDIX I.

184. Signals to be made by Ships wanting a Pilot :—

In the Daytime.—The following signals, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals for a pilot in the daytime, viz. :—

  1. To be hoisted at the fore, the Union Jack, having round it a white border, one-fifth of the breadth of the flag ; or
  2. The International Code pilotage signal indicated by P.T.
  3. The International Code flag S, with or without the Code pen-nant over it.
  4. The distant signal, consisting of a cone point upwards, having above it two balls or shapes resembling balls.

At Night.—The following signals, numbered 1 and 2, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals for a pilot at night, viz. :—

  1. The pyrotechnic light, commonly known as a blue light, every fifteen minutes ; or
  2. A bright white light, flashed or shown at short or frequent intervals just above the bulwarks for about a minute at a time.

If a master of a vessel uses or displays, or causes or permits any person under his authority to use or display, any of the pilot signals for any other purpose than that of summoning a pilot, or uses, or causes or permits any person under his authority to use, any other signal for a pilot, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding £20.—(Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, section 615 (3).)



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🚂 Aids to Memory for Navigation Rules

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