NICHOLAS'S SEAMANSHIP AND NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE
Then numerous illustrations and exercises on the probable direction
a vessel showing her sidelights may be heading and what to do under
various circumstances.
This section should be carefully studied and read over and over
again. The relative conditions must be intelligently visualised, for
there is no other way of becoming thoroughly familiar with the
examination side of the Rule of the Road at Sea.
Chapter XI. deals with the Notices to Mariners, system of buoyage
and various supplementary regulations for adding to the safety of life
and property at sea.
REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS
AT SEA.
Preliminary.
These Rules shall be followed by all vessels upon the high seas
and in all waters connected therewith, navigable by sea-going vessels.
In the following Rules every steam vessel which is under sail
and not under steam is to be considered a sailing vessel, and every
vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to 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 &ist to the shore, or aground.
Rules Concerning Lights, etc.
The word " visible " in these Rules, when applied to lights,
shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere.
Lights*
ABT. 1.—The Rules concerning lights shall be complied with
in all weathers from sunset to sunrise, and during *$uch time no
other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall,
be exhibited.
Steam Ships,
ABT. 2.—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 fore part of the vessel, at a height