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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TM AUGUST, 1880.
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Art. 4. A steam ship, when towing another ship, shall, in addition to her side lights, carry two right white lights in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart, so as to dis- nguish her from other steam ships. Each of these lights shall be of the same construction and aracter, and shall be carried in the same position, as the white light which other steam ships are quired to carry.
Art. 5. A ship, whether a steam ship or a sailing ship, when employed either in laying or in icking up a telegraph cable, or which from any accident is not under command, shall at night carry, the same position as the white light which steam ships are required to carry, and, if a steam ship, place of that light, three red lights in globular lanterns, each not less than 10 inches in diameter, in vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart: and shall by day carry in a vertical ne one over the other, not less than three feet apart, in front of but not lower than her foremast head, ree black balls or shapes, each two feet in diameter.
These shapes and lights are to be taken by approaching ships as signals that the ship using them ; not under command, and cannot therefore get out of the way.
The above ships, when not making any way through the water, shall not carry the side lights, ut when making way shall carry them.
Art. 6. A sailing ship under way, or being towed, shall carry the same lights as are provided by Article 3 for a steam ship under way, with the exception of the white light, which she shall never arry.
Art. 7. Whenever, as in the case of small vessels during bad weather, the green and red side ights cannot be fixed, these lights shall be kept on deck, on their respective sides of the vessel, ready or use; and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in ufficient time to present collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green ight shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side.
To make the use of these portable lights more certain and easy, the lanterns containing them hall each be painted outside with the colour of the light they respectively contain, and shall be pro- ided with proper screens.
Art. 8. A ship, whether a steam ship or a sailing ship, when at anchor, shall carry, where it can est be seen, but at a height not exceeding 20 feet above the hull, a white light, in a globular lantern of not less than eight inches in diaineter, and so constructed as to show a clear uniform and unbroken ight, visible all round the horizon, at a distance of at least one mile.
Art. 9. A pilot vessel, when engaged on her station on pilotage duty, shall not carry the lights required for other vessels, but shall carry a white light at the masthead, visible all round the horizon, and shall also exhibit a flare-up light or flare-up lights at short intervals, which shall never exceed fifteen minutes.
A pilot vessel, when not engaged on her station on pilotage duty, shall carry lights similar to those of other ships.
Art. 10. (a.) Open fishing boats and other open boats when under way shall not be obliged to carry the side lights required for other vessels; but every such boat shall in lieu thereof have ready at handlantern with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other side; and on the approach of or to other vessels, such lantern shall be exhibited in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side, nor the red light on the starboard side.
(b.) A fishing vessel, and an open boat, when at anchor, shall exhibit a bright white light. (c.) A fishing vessel, when employed in drift net fishing, shall carry on one of her masts two
red lights in a vertical line one over the other, not less than three feet apart.
and shall
(d.) A trawler at work shal carry on one of her masts two lights in ? vertical line one over the
other, not less than three feet apart, the upper light red, and the lower green, also either carry the side lights required for other vessels, or, if the side lights cannot be carried, have ready at hand the coloured lights as provided in Article 7, or a lantern with a red and a gree i glass as described in paragraph (a.) of this Article.
(c) Fishing vessels and open boats shall not be prevented from using a flare-up in addition, if
they desire to do so.
(1) The lights mentioned in this Article are substituted for those mentioned in the 12th, 13th, and 11th Articles of the Convention between, France and England. scheduled to the British Sea Fisheries Act, 1868.
(g) AH lights required by this Article, except side lights, shall be in globular lanterns so
constructed as to show all round the horizon.
Art. 11. A ship which is being overtaken by another shall show from her stern to such last-
mentioned ship a white light or a flare-up light.