PRECAUTION.

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 which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the

case.

LIGHTS ON UNITED STATES NAVAL VESSELS AND REVENUE
CUTTERS.

ART. 30. The exhibition of any light on board of a vessel of war of the United States or a revenue cutter may be suspended whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, the commander in chief of a squadron, or the commander of a vessel acting singly, the special character of the service may require it.

DISTRESS SIGNALS.

ART. 31. When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, namely:

IN THE DAYTIME.

A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus, or firing a gun.

AT NIGHT.

First. Flames on the vessel as from a burning tar barrel, oil barrel, and so forth.

Second. A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus, or firing a gun.

362. Limits of application of international and inland or local rules.

Feb. 19, 1895.
Sec. 2.

Feb. 14, 1903.

The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized, empowered and directed from time to time to designate and define by suitable bearings or ranges with sec. 10. light houses, light vessels, buoys or coast objects, the lines dividing the high seas from rivers, harbors and inland waters. The words "inland waters" used in this Act shall not be held to include the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal:

LINES ESTABLISHING HARBORS, RIVERS, AND INLAND WATERS
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN WHICH THE INLAND
RULES ARE TO APPLY.

[Bearings are magnetic and given approximately.]

Cutler (Little River) Harbor, Me.: A line drawn from Long Point SW. by W. W. to Little River Head.

Little Machias Bay, Machias Bay, Englishman Bay, Chandler Bay, Moosabec Reach, Pleasant Bay, Narraguagus Bay, and Pigeon Hill Bay, Me.: A line drawn from Little River Head WSW. W. to the outer side of Old Man; thence WSW. W. to the outer side of Double Shot Islands; thence W. S. to Libby Islands Light-House; thence WSW. W. to Moose Peak LightHouse; thence WSW. W. to Little Pond Head; from Pond Point, Great Wass Island, W. by S. to outer side of Crumple Island; thence W. S. to Petit Manan LightHouse.

All harbors on the coast of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts between Petit Manan Light-House, Me., and Cape Ann Light-Houses, Mass.: A line drawn from Petit Manan Light-House SW. S., 26 miles, to Mount Desert Light-House; thence W. S., 33 miles, to Matinicus Rock Light-Houses; thence WNW. W., 20 miles, to Monhegan Island Light-House; thence W. 21 miles, to Seguin Island Whistling Buoy; thence W. S., 19 miles, to Old Anthony Whistling Buoy, off Cape Elizabeth; thence SW., 28 miles, to Boon Island LightHouse; thence SW. W., 12 miles, to Anderson Ledge Spindle, off Isles of Shoals Light-House; thence S. by W. W., 19 miles, to Cape Ann Light-Houses, Mass. Boston Harbor: From Point Allerton NNE. E., easterly, through Point Allerton Beacon to Northeast Grave Whistling Buoy; thence NNE. E. to Outer Breaker (Great Pig Rocks) Bell Buoy; thence NE. by E. E. to Halfway Rock Beacon; thence NE. by E. E. to Eastern Point Light-House.

All harbors in Cape Cod Bay, Mass.: A line drawn from Plymouth (Gurnet) Light-Houses E., 161 miles, to Race Point Light-House.

Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound, and Easterly Entrance to Long Island Sound: A line drawn from Chatham Light-Houses, Mass., S. by E. 3 E., about 6 miles, to Northeast Slue Channel Whistling Buoy (Pollock Rip) thence S. by W. § W., about 11 miles, to Great Round Shoal Light Vessel; thence SSW. W., 7g miles, to Sankaty Head Light-House; from the westerly end of Tuckernuck Island NW. by W. W., about 5 miles, to Wasque Point Chappaquiddick Island; from Gay Head LightHouse W. S., 35 miles, to Block Island (SE.) LightHouse; thence W. S., 15 miles, to Montauk Point LightHouse, on the easterly end of Long Island, N. Y.

New York Harbor: From Navesink (southerly) LightHouse NE. E., easterly, to Scotland Light Vessel; thence NNE. E. through Gedney Channel Whistling Buoy to Rockaway Point Life-Saving Station.

Philadelphia Harbor and Delaware Bay: From Cape Henlopen Light-House ENE. E. to Overfalls Light Vessel; thence NNE. E. to Cape May Light-House.

Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay: From Cape Henry Light-House NE. by E. E., easterly, to Outer Entrance Whistling Buoy; thence N. by E. E. to Cape Charles Light-House.

Charleston Harbor: From Charleston Light Vessel N. E. to Rattlesnake Shoal West Buoy; thence W. N. to the west end of the North Jetty; and from Charleston Light Vessel about SW. W. through Charleston Whistling Buoy (proposed position) until Charleston LightHouse bears NNW. W.; thence W. to Folly Island.

Savannah Harbor and Calibogue Sound: From Tybee Whistling Buoy NNW. 1 W. through North Slue Channel Outer Buoy to Braddock Point, Hilton Head Island, and from Tybee Whistling Buoy W. to Tybee Island.

St. Simon Sound (Brunswick Harbor) and St. Andrew Sound: From hotel on Beach of St. Simon Island 1 mile NE. by E. E. from St. Simon Light-house, SE. E. to St. Simon Sea Buoy; thence S. E. to St. Andrew Sound Sea Buoy; thence W. to the shore of Little Cumberland Island.

St. Johns River, Florida: A straight line from the outer end of the northerly jetty to the outer end of the southerly jetty.

Charlotte Harbor and Punta Gorda, Florida: Eastward of the entrance Bell Buoy off Boca Grande and in Charlotte Harbor, in Pine Island Sound and Matlacha Pass. Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in Peace and Myacca Rivers north of a WSW. and ENE. line through Mangrove Point Beacon Light; and in Caloosa River northward of the steamboat wharf at Punta Rasa.

Tampa Bay and Tributaries, Florida: From the south end of Long Key, SW. W. to the Whistling Buoy; thence SE. S. to the Bar Bell Buoy at the entrance to Southwest Channel; thence E. S. to the north end of Anna Maria or Palm Key. Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in Manatee River inside the black and white perpendicularly striped Entrance Buoy; in Hillsboro River inside Barrel Stake Beacon Light.

St. George Sound, Apalachicola Bay, Carrabelle and Apalachicola Rivers, and St. Vincent Sound, Florida: North of a line from Light-House Point SW. by W. W. to the southeastern end of Dog Island; to the northward of the black and white perpendicularly striped Outer Buoy at the entrance to East Pass, and inside the black and white perpendicularly striped buoy at the seaward entrance to West Pass. Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in Carrabelle River and when on the range and crossing the bar at the entrance; in Apalachicola River and northward of Five Foot Lump Buoy when crossing the bar.

Pensacola Harbor: From Pensacola Entrance Whistling Buoy N. W., a tangent to the E. side of Fort Pick

ens, to the shore of Santa Rosa Island, and from the Whistling Buoy NW. W. to Fort McRee Range Front Light.

Mobile Harbor and Bay: From Mobile Bay Outer or Deep Sea Whistling Buoy (or its watch buoy in summer) NE. by N. to the shore of Mobile Point, and from the Whistling Buoy NW. by W. to the shore of Dauphin Island. Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in Mobile River above Battery Gladden.

Sounds, lakes, and harbors on the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, between Mobile Bay Entrance and the Delta of the Mississippi River: From Sand Island Light-House WSW. W. (approximately) to Chandeleur Light-House, westward of Chandeleur and Errol Islands, and west of a line drawn from the southwest point of Errol Island, south (approximately) to Pass a Loutre Light-House. Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in the Pascagoula River, and in the dredged cut at the entrance to the river, above the outside beacon marking the dredged cut.

New Orleans Harbor and the Delta of the Mississippi: From South Pass East Jetty N. by E. E. to Pass a Loutre Light-House; thence N. to Errol Island, and from South Pass East Jetty Light W. S. to Southwest Pass Light-House; thence N. to shore.

Sabine Pass, Texas: Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply to Sabine Pass northward of Sabine Pass Whistling Buoy, and in Sabine Lake and its tributaries. Outside of this buoy the International Rules apply.

Galveston Harbor: From Galveston Bar Whistling Buoy N. by W. W. through the beacon marking the outer extremity of the North jetty, and WSW. to the Tremont House, Galveston City.

Brazos River, Texas: Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in the Brazos River above the outer ends of the jetties. International Rules apply outside the ends of the jetties.

San Diego Harbor: From Point Lomo Light-House S. E. to San Diego Bay Outside Bar Whistling Buoy; thence NNE. E. to tower of Coronado Hotel.

San Francisco Harbor: From Point Bonita LightHouse SE. S. to Point Lobos.

Columbia River Entrance: From Cape Disappointment Light SE. E. to Point Adams Light.

Straights of Fuca, Washington and Puget Sounds: A line from New Dungeness Light-House N. W. to Cattle Point Light, on the southeasterly end of San Juan Island (Mount Constitution, on Orcas Island, is in range with Cattle Point Light on this line); from Bellevue Point, San Juan Island, NW. W., 33 miles, to Kellett Bluff, Henry Island (a tangent to the point and the bluff); thence NW. N., 6 miles, to Turn Point Light, on the northwesterly end of Stuart Island; thence NE. E. to the westerly

point of Skipjack Island; thence N. by E. E. to Patos
Islands Light; from the easterly end of Patos Island
NW. W. northerly to the southwesterly point of Point
Roberts.

363. Rules for the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River as
far east as Montreal.

The following rules for preventing collisions shall be Feb. 8, 1895. followed in the navigation of all public and private vessels of the United States upon the Great Lakes and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as Montreal.

STEAM AND SAIL VESSELS.

RULE 1. Every steam vessel which is under sail and not under steam, shall be considered a sail vessel; and every steam vessel which is under steam, whether under sail or not, shall be considered a steam vessel. The word 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.

LIGHTS.

RULE 2. The lights mentioned in the following rules and no others shall be carried in all weathers from sunset to sunrise. The word visible in these rules when applied to lights shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere.

RULE 3. Except in the cases hereinafter expressly provided for, a steam vessel when under way shall carry:

(a) On or in front of the foremast, or if a vessel without a foremast, then in the forepart of the vessel, at a height above the hull of not less than twenty feet, and if the beam of the vessel exceeds twenty feet, then at a height above the hull not less than such beam, so, however, that such height need not exceed forty feet, a bright white light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles.

(b) On the starboard side, a green light, so constructed as to throw an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.

(c) On the port side, a red light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the port side,

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