What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Related booksCommon terms and phrasesa-day abroad according Admiralty allowed Appendix appointed Article Assistant badge belonging Boatswains Boys Broad Pendant Cadets Captain certificate charge Chief Engineer circumstances Commander-in-chief or senior Commanding Officer Commission Commodore conduct continuous service corporal punishment Court-Martial Crew direct discharged Ditto Dock-yard duty embarked employed entitled examination Flag Officer Fleet Full-Pay Gratuity guns Hospital inserted Instructions Krooman Lieutenant List log-book Majesty's Ships mess Midshipmen Military Naval Instructor Navy necessary Non-commissioned Officers offence Officer in command Ordinary Seamen paid pass Paymaster Pension period person Petty Officers port Port Admiral proper punishment qualified Quarters rank receive regulations respective Royal Marines Royal Navy sails Salutes Seamen Gunners Second Masters Secretary senior Officer present sent served Ship's Books Ship's Company Sick Squadron Steam Steward Steward's Assistant Stokers Sub-Lieutenants Superintendent Surgeon survey tion transmitted unless vacancies Vessels Victualling Warrant Officers wounds Popular passagesPage 173 - Whenever any ship, whether a steamer or sailing ship, proceeding in one direction, meets another ship, whether a steamer or sailing ship, proceeding in another direction, so that if both ships were to continue their respective courses they would pass so near as to involve the risk of a collision, the helms of both ships must be put to port so as to pass on the port side of each other... Page 171 - Eight Inches in Diameter, and so constructed as to show a clear uniform and unbroken Light visible all round the Horizon, and at a distance of at least One Mile. Page 170 - ... uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the ship, viz. from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least five miles. Page 170 - ... from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. Page 88 - Behalf the same is given may sue thereon or may recover the Wages due by all or any of the Means by which Wages due to Merchant Seamen are recoverable... Page 21 - Now, for the purpose of attaining an end so desirable as that of rewarding individual instances of merit and valour... Page 22 - Cross, under rule seven, shall " be publicly decorated before the Naval or Military force or body to which he belongs, and "with which the act of bravery for which he is to be rewarded shall have been performed, and M his name shall be recorded in a General Order, together with the cause of his especial Page 199 - ... of the freighter], and to the cargo therein, consisting of [state very shortly the descriptions and quantities of the goods, and the names and addresses of their owners and consignees'] : And whereas the said... Page 197 - ... and certificates of mortgage or sale (if any) affecting the same, and the names, and places of business of the owners and... Page 21 - Whereas We, taking into Our Royal Consideration that there exists no means of adequately rewarding the individual gallant services either of officers of the lower grades in Our Naval and Military Service, or of warrant and petty officers, seamen, and marines, in Our Navy, and non-commissioned officers and soldiers in Our Army ; and whereas the third class of Our Most Honourable Order... Bibliographic information |