540 NICHOLLS'S SEAMANSHIP AND NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE
Steam Whistles, Nautical Instruments and Ships' Navigation
Lanterns.
We give here a list of the more important of these publications
but not of the numerous supplements issued separately as
circumstances may dictate.
1. Anchors and Chain Cables Act. l/-
2. Coal Cargoes, various circulars.
3. Dangerous Goods. 2/-
4. Deck Cargoes. Report on Timber. 2/-
5. Emigrant Ships, l/-
6. Fire Precautions, various circulars.
7. Grain Cargoes. 6d.
8. Instructions as to Survey of Life-saving Appliances. 2/6
9. Load Line Rules. 1/9
10. International Convention respecting Load Lines. 3/-
11. National Health and Pensions Insurance.
12. Instructions as to the Survey of Passenger Steamships. 1/6
13. Safety of Life at Sea, International Convention. 4/-
14. Tonnage Measurements. 9d.
15. Instructions as to the Survey of Master's and Crew
Spaces. 6d.
16. Examination Regulations; Masters and Mates in the
Mercantile Marine. 1/6
*'Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Explosives in Ships,"
1935. H.M.S.0.2/-.—This is a Report of a Departmental Committee
appointed to consider the existing Board of Trade Memorandum on
the Carriage of Dangerous Goods. The Board has decided to
adopt in substitution of the present Memorandum that part of the
Report which contains particulars of packing, labelling and stowing
applicable to various substances.
The substances have been classified into seven categories, viz.
1. Explosives. 2. Compressed "permanent," liquefied and dis-
solved gases. 3. Substances which become dangerous by interaction
with water or air. 4. Substances giving ofi inflammable vapours.
6. Poisonous substances. 7. Miscellaneous.
A section is devoted to each category in which is grouped in
alphabetical order the names of dangerous goods with instructions^
to manufacturers, packers and stevedores regarding the packing,