CHAPTER II-CORPS OF ENGINEERS

WAR DEPARTMENT

PART 202-ANCHORAGE REGULA

TIONS

§ 202.7 Newburyport Harbor, Mass.; special anchorage area. The following area is designated as a special anchorage area wherein vessels not more than 65 feet in length, when at anchor, shall not be required to carry or exhibit anchor lights:

(9) Anchorage (general) No. 9 (tempoEastward of a line from the northeast rary restricted area). The rectangular corner of the American Yacht Club prop- area 1,400 yards wide and 4,000 yards erty bearing due north to a point about long, the lengthwise axis of which bears 900 feet, 237° from South Pier; south-east and west and the southwest corner ward of a line bearing 70° to a point 310 feet, 212° from South Pier, said line extending easterly to a point about 600 feet due south of North Pier; westward of a line bearing due south from North Pier to the shoreline. (54 Stat. 150; 33 U.S.C., Sup., 180) [Regs., Oct. 8, 1940 (E.D. 7175 (Newburyport Harbor, Mass.) 2/7); 5 F.R. 4241]

§ 202.65 Tampa Bay, Fla.

THE ANCHORAGE GROUNDS

(a) The area in Tampa Bay, Florida, described below is hereby established as a quarantine anchorage for vessels, and the following rules and regulations relating thereto are hereby adopted:

A rectangular area 2 nautical miles in length and 2,000 feet in width, the northwesterly corner of this area being located approximately 4,000 feet northerly of Hillsboro Bay Cut A range, and 300 feet east of Tampa Bay Cut E range produced northerly; the northerly line of this area bears 71° (North 71° East) from this northwesterly corner for a distance of 2 nautical miles. This northerly line will be marked by three yellow can buoys, one at each end and one in the middle. [As amended Aug. 27, 1940 (E.D. 6700 (Tampa Bay, Fla.) 6/6); 5 F.R. 38231

of which bears 122° true from the tower of the Ferry Building, San Francisco, and 19° true from the chimney of the pumping plant at Hunters Point Dry Dock (Point Avisadero) shall be closed to all navigation except that engaged in the construction of the Naval Air Station, Alameda, California, until the completion of the dredging and filling operations in connection with said construction, about November 1, 1941. [As amended Mar. 25, 1940 (E.D. 7175 (San Francisco Bay) 72/2); 5 F.R. 13151

(14) Anchorage (explosives) No. 14. The circular area having a radius of 1,500 feet about a white buoy used to mark the location of this anchorage, the center of which bears 129°30' from the tower of the Ferry Building, San Francisco, and 23°30' from the chimney of the pumping plant at Hunters Point Dry Dock (Point Avisadero). (For use of this anchorage, see paragraph (b) of this section.)

The circular zone 1,500 feet wide surround

ing this Explosive Anchorage No. 14 is forbidden anchorage and shall not be used by any vessels.

This anchorage and the surrounding zone of forbidden anchorage may be temporarily discontinued by the District Engineer of the San Francisco Engineer District when the area occupied by them is needed for general anchorage purposes. [As amended Mar. 25, 1940 (E.D. 7175 (San Francisco Bay) 72/1); 5 F.R. 1315]

[Preceding paragraph, in small type, superseded by following paragraph during period covered by this Supplement]

San Francisco Bay, Calif.; restricted area for seaplanes at Naval Air Station, Alameda, Calif.-(a) Area. A portion of General Anchorage No. 9, San Francisco Bay, is hereby defined and established as a restricted seaplane area and the regulations in this section relating thereto are hereby adopted:

(14) Anchorage (explosives) No. 14. | § 202.92 The circular area having a radius of 1,500 feet about a white buoy used to mark the location of this anchorage, the center of which is 3,000 yards, 100° from the chimney of the pumping plant at the Hunters Point dry docks (Point Avisadero). (For use of this anchorage, see paragraph (b) of this section.)

The circular zone 1,500 feet wide surrounding this Explosive Anchorage No. 14 is forbidden anchorage and shall not be used by any vessels.

This anchorage and the surrounding zone of forbidden anchorage may be temporarily discontinued by the District Engineer of the San Francisco Engineer District when the area occupied by them is needed for general anchorage purposes. [As amended Nov. 4, 1940 (E.D. 7195 (San Francisco Bay) 14/5); 5 F.R. 46391

§ 202.91 San Francisco Bay, California; restricted area for seaplanes at Oakland, California. A portion of General Anchorage No. 6, San Francisco Bay at Oakland, California, is hereby defined and established as a temporary restricted seaplane area, and the regulations in this section relating thereto are hereby adopted:

(a) The area. The truncated triangular area between the Berkeley Auto Ferry Pier and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the four corners of which are the following distances and true bearings from the easterly pier of the cantilever span of the above bridge (the pier marked H on U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey charts 5532 and 5535): northwest corner, 3,532 yards, 34834°; northeast corner, 4,813 yards, 543⁄4°; southeast corner, 4,560 yards, 592°; southwest corner, 555 yards,

312°.

NOTE: The area will be marked by the U. S. Coast Guard in accordance with standard practice for the designation of anchorage areas and such other buoys as may be selected by the U. S. Coast Guard and the Civil Aeronautics Authority for the guidance of seaplanes.

(b) Rules and regulations. No surface watercraft shall be operated or anchored in this area except those attendant upon seaplane operations. (Sec. 7, 40 Stat. 266; 33 U.S.C. 1) [Regs., Feb. 5, 1940 (E.D. 7175 (San Francisco B.), 65/7); 5 F.R. 6961

(1) Section A. That portion of San Francisco Bay, abutting on the south side of the channel to the United States Naval Air Station at Alameda, the corners of which are the following distances and true bearings from the chimney of the pumping plant at the Hunters Point dry docks yards, 132°; 5,715 yards, 172°; 6,700 yards, 37°; 7,185 yards, 492°; 7,115 yards, 86°; 1,870 yards, 741⁄2°.

(Point Avisadero):

4,700

(2) Section B. That portion of San Francisco Bay abutting on the east side of the above Section A (subparagraph (1) of this paragraph), the corners of which are the following distances and bearings from the chimney of the pumping plant at the Hunters Point dry docks (Point Avisadero): 7,185 yards, 491⁄2°; 9,400 yards, 702°; 9,250 yards, 732°; 7,115 yards, 86°.

NOTE: The above areas will be marked by the United States Coast Guard in accordance with standard practice for the designation of anchorage areas and such other buoys as may be selected by the United States Navy, the Civil Aeronautics Authority and the Coast Guard.

(b) Rules and regulations. (1) No surface water craft shall be operated or anchored in the above areas except those attendant upon seaplane operations of the United States Navy.

(2) This section, with respect to paragraph (a) (1) shall take effect and be in force on and after November 11, 1940; with respect to paragraph (a) (2), to take effect upon completion of the dredging of seaplane channels therein as announced by the District Engineer in charge of the locality. (Sec. 7, 40 Stat. 266; 33 U.S.C. 1) [Regs., Nov. 4, 1940, effective Nov. 11, 1940 (E.D. 7195 (San Francisco Bay) 14/6); 5 F.R. 46391

PART 203-BRIDGE REGULATIONS

§ 203.35 Piscataqua River, Maine and N. H.-(a) Bridge (highway) between Portsmouth, N. H., and Kittery, Maine. (1) The draw shall, upon the signals

prescribed in subparagraphs (2) and (3) of this paragraph being given, be opened promptly at all hours for the passage of any vessel or vessels or other water craft not able to pass underneath it.

(2) The signal for opening the draw shall be four blasts of a whistle or horn.

(3) Upon receiving the prescribed signal from an approaching vessel or water craft, the draw tender, in case the draw can be opened immediately, shall promptly reply by an answering signal of three blasts of a whistle or horn. If, for any reason, the draw cannot be opened promptly when the prescribed signal is given, the draw tender shall so indicate by sounding five blasts of a whistle or horn, repeated at intervals until answered in like manner by the approaching vessel.

| vessel approaches this drawbridge and desires to pass through the draw, two long and two short distinct blasts of a whistle, horn, or megaphone shall be sounded from the vessel when within reasonable hearing distance of the bridge.

When the draw of the bridge can be opened immediately, the draw tender shall reply by two long distinct blasts of a whistle, siren, horn, or megaphone or by two loud and distinct strokes of a bell.

When the draw of the bridge cannot be opened immediately or when the bridge is open and is to be closed immediately, the draw tender shall reply by five short distinct blasts of a whistle, siren, horn, or megaphone or by five loud and distinct strokes of a bell, repeated at intervals until answered in like manner from the approaching vessel.

(3) When weather conditions prevent hearing the sound signals when a vessel approaches this drawbridge and desires to pass through the draw, signals shall be made from the vessel by swinging in circles at arm's length, a lighted lantern at night and a flag by day.

(4) There shall be provided, and kept in good legible condition, two board gages, painted white, with black figures not less than 6 inches high, to indicate the headroom clearance under the lower chords of the closed drawspan at all stages of the tide. The gages shall be so placed on the piers at the ends of the When the draw of the bridge can be drawspan, that they will be plainly visi-opened immediately, the draw tender ble to the operator of a vessel approaching the bridge either upstream or downstream.

(5) Pedestrians and vehicles shall not be stopped on the bridge for the purpose of delaying its opening, nor shall water craft or vessels be so manipulated as to hinder or delay the operation of a drawspan, but all passage over, through, or under a drawbridge shall be prompt, to prevent delay to either land or water traffic.

(6) The rules and regulations in this paragraph shall be in force on and after December 1, 1929, and shall supersede regulations approved June 27, 1923, for the above-mentioned bridge.

shall reply by raising and lowering in a vertical plane a number of times, a lighted lantern at night and a flag by day.

When the draw of the bridge cannot be opened immediately or when the bridge is to be closed immediately, the draw tender shall reply by swinging to and fro horizontally a number of times a lighted lantern at night and a flag by day.

(4) When two or more vessels are approaching this bridge at nearly the same time from the same or opposite directions with the draw opened or closed, each of these vessels shall signal independently for the opening of the draw, and the draw tender shall reply as prescribed and in turn to the signal of each

vessel.

(b) Bridge (combined highway and railroad) between Portsmouth, N. H., and Kittery, Maine. (1) The corporation or (5) The draw shall be opened with the persons owning or controlling this draw-least possible delay at all hours upon rebridge shall provide the same with the necessary tenders and the proper mechanical appliances for the safe, prompt, and efficient opening of the draw for the passage of vessels.

ceiving the prescribed signal for the passage of any vessel or vessels or other water craft not able to pass underneath it: Provided, That the drawspan shall not be opened when a train is approach(2) If the weather conditions are gooding so closely that it cannot safely be and sound signals can be heard when a stopped before reaching the railroad sig

(e) Copies of the regulations in this | Four distinct blasts of a whistle, horn or section shall be conspicuously posted on megaphone, or four loud and distinct both the upstream and downstream sides strokes of a bell. of the bridges in such manner that they can be easily read at any time.