✨ Maritime Safety Regulations
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.
Charles Wood,
R. S. Dundas.
By Command of their Lordships,
W. G. Romaine,
Secretary.
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;
Green Light.
Red Light.
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;
Red Light.
or, 2, a vessel is crossing in some direction to port, as D D D.
All Red Lights.
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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Otago Provincial Gazette 1859, No 87
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Admiralty Notice on Lights and Fog Signals for Sea-going Vessels
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🚂 Transport & Communications24 February 1858
Admiralty, Lights, Fog Signals, Collision Prevention, Steam Vessels, Sailing Vessels, Pilot Vessels, Vessels at Anchor
- Charles Wood
- R. S. Dundas
- W. G. Romaine, Secretary
🚂 Diagrams Illustrating Vessel Light Signals
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsNavigation, Lights, Diagrams, Vessel Identification, Collision Prevention