she shall give one short blast of the steam-whistle, as a signal of such desire, and if the vessel ahead answers with one blast, she shall put her helm to port; or if she shall desire to pass on the left or port side of the vessel ahead, she shall give two short blasts of the steam-whistle as a signal of such desire, and if the vessel ahead answers with two blasts, shall put her helm to starboard; or if the vessel ahead does not think it safe for the vessel astern to attempt to pass at that point, she shall immediately signify the same by giving several short and rapid blasts of the steam-whistle, not less than four, and under no circumstances shall the vessel astern attempt to pass the vessel ahead until such time as they have reached a point where it can be safely done, when said vessel ahead shall signify her willingness by blowing the proper signals. The vessel ahead shall in no case attempt to cross the bow or crowd upon the course of the passing vessel.

RULE IX. The whistle signals provided in the rules under this article, for steam-vessels meeting, passing, or overtaking, are never to be used except when steamers are in sight of each other, and the course and position of each can be determined in the daytime by a sight of the vessel itself, or by night by seeing its signal lights. In fog, mist, falling snow or heavy rainstorms, when vessels can not see each other, fog-signals only must be given.

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS.

The supervising inspectors of steam-vessels and the Sec. 2. Supervising Inspector-General shall establish such rules to be observed by steam-vessels in passing each other and as to the lights to be carried by ferry-boats and by barges and canal-boats when in tow of steam-vessels, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as they from time. to time may deem necessary for safety, which rules when approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, are hereby declared special rules duly made by local authority, Sec. 10. as provided for in article thirty of chapter eight hundred and two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety. Two printed copies of such rules shall be furnished to such ferry-boats and steam-vessels, which rules shall be kept posted up in conspicuous places in such vessels.

TWO STEAM-VESSELS CROSSING.

ART. 19. When two steam vessels are crossing, so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way of the other.

STEAM-VESSEL SHALL KEEP OUT OF THE WAY OF SAILING-
VESSEL.

ART. 20. When a steam-vessel and sailing-vessel are proceeding in such directions as to involve risk of collision, the steam-vessel shall keep out of the way of the sailing-vessel.

Feb. 14, 1903.

June 7, 1897.

COURSE AND SPEED.

ART. 21. Where, by any of these rules, one of the two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.

[See articles 27 and 29.]

CROSSING AHEAD.

ART. 22. Every vessel which is directed by these rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other.

STEAM-VESSELS SHALL SLACKEN SPEED OR STOP.

ART. 23. Every steam-vessel which is directed by these rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, on approaching her, if necessary, slacken her speed or stop

or reverse.

OVERTAKING VESSELS.

ART. 24. Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules every vessel, overtaking any other, shall keep out of the way of the overtaken vessel.

Every vessel coming up with another vessel from any direction more than two points abaft her beam, that is, in such a position, with reference to the vessel which she is overtaking that at night she would be unable to see either of that vessel's side-lights, shall be deemed to be an overtaking vessel; and no subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken. vessel until she is finally past and clear.

As by day the overtaking vessel can not always know with certainty whether she is forward of or abaft this direction from the other vessel she should, if in doubt, assume that she is an overtaking vessel and keep out of the way.

NARROW CHANNELS.

ART. 25. In narrow channels every steam vessel shall, when it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fair-way or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such vessel.

RIGHTS OF WAY OF FISHING VESSELS.

ART. 26. Sailing-vessels under way shall keep out of the way of sailing-vessels or boats fishing with nets, or lines or trawls. This rule shall not give to any vessel or boat engaged in fishing the right of obstructing a fair-way used by vessels other than fishing-vessels or boats.

GENERAL PRUDENTIAL RULE.

ART. 27. In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.

SOUND SIGNALS FOR PASSING STEAMERS.

(See Art. 18.)

ART. 28. When vessels are in sight of one another a steam-vessel under way whose engines are going at full speed astern shall indicate that fact by three short blasts on the whistle.

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.

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Feb. 19, 1895.
Sec. 2

Feb. 14, 1903.
Sec. 10.

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

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 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.]

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.

Baltimore Harbor and Chesapeake Bay: From Cape Henry light-house NE. by E. 4 E., easterly, to Outer Entrance Whistling Buoy; thence N. by E. E. to Cape Charles light-house.

Galveston Harbor: From Galveston Bar Whistling Buoy N. by W. W. through the beacon marking the outer extremity of the N. jetty, and SW. by W. W., westerly, through North Breaker Beacon.

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.

San Francisco Harbor: From Point Bonita light-house SE. S. to Point Lobos.

Philadelphia Harbor and Delaware Bay: From Cape Henlopen light-house NE. by E. to South Shoal Whistling Buoy; thence NNE. E. to Cape May light-house.

Charleston Harbor: From Charleston light-vessel NW. W. (toward Sullivans Island Range Rear Light) to the North Jetty, and from Charleston light-vessel SW. W. to Charleston Whistling Buoy; thence SW. W. to Charleston Main Channel Entrance Bell Buoy; 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 mile NE. by E. E. from St. Simon light-house, SE. E. to St. Simon Sea Buoy; thence S. E. to St. Andrew's Sound Sea Buoy; thence W. to the shore of Little Cumberland Island.

Pensacola Harbor: From Pensacola Entrance Whistling Buoy N. W., a tangent to the E. side of Fort Pickens, to the shore of Santa Rose 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.

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

San Diego Harbor: From Point Loma light-house S. 3 E. to San Diego Bay Outside Bar Whistling Buoy; thence NNE. E. to tower of Coronado Hotel.

Columbia River Entrance: From Cape Disappointment light-house SE. 3 E. to Point Adams light-house.

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 light-house; 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 light-house.

All harbors on the coasts 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 light-house; thence SW. W., 12 miles, to Anderson Ledge Spindle, off Isles of Shoals light-house; thence S. by W. W., 194 miles, to Cape Ann light-houses, Massachusetts. (Lines heretofore established for Portland Harbor, and Kittery Harbor, Me., Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire, Newburyport, Ipswich and Annisquam har bors, Massachusetts, are hereby canceled.)

All harbors in Cape Cod Bay, Mass.: A line drawn from Plymouth (Gurnet) light-houses E., 16 miles, to Race Point light-house.

Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, Nar ragansett Bay, Block Island Sound, and easterly entrance to Long Island Sound: A line drawn from Chatham lighthouses, Mass., S. by E. & 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;