REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LIGHTS FOR SMALL CRAFT.

RESOLUTION.

Resolved, That a committee of nine be appointed to consider and report on the lights to be carried or shown on small vessels, pilot-vessels, and fishing vessels.

To Rear-Admiral S. R. FRANKLIN, U. S. Navy,

President of the International Marine Conference, etc. :

SIR: The Committee on Lights for Small Craft, pursuant to the res olution adopted by the Marine Conference instructing the said committee to consider and report as to rules for the lights to be carried or shown on small vessels, pilot-vessels, and fishing vessels, have agreed upon a report, which, having adopted unanimously, or by a majority of votes, they respectfully submit, in the form of proposed amendments to the present international regulations.

The committee are unanimously of opinion that the part of the present Article 10, which precedes subsection (a), applying to fishing vessels and boats when in the sea off the coast of Europe, lying north

of Cape Finisterre, should be omitted. The amendments submitted are therefore proposed as applicable to all waters without distinction.

THOMAS GRAY, Chairman.

Delegate for Great Britain. THO. VERBRUGGHE,

Delegate for Belgium.

A. M. BISBEE,

Delegate for China.

AUG. SCHNEIDER,

Delegate for Denmark.

HENRI LANNELUC,

Delegate for France.

CHR. DONNER,

Delegate for Germany.

R. BABA,

Delegate for Japan.

D. HUBERT,

Delegate for The Netherlands.

JAS. W. NORCROSS, Delegate for the United States.

ART. 7. Whenever, as in the case of small vessels under way during bad weather, the green and red side lights can not be fixed, these lights shall be kept at hand, ready for use; and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side, nor if practicable more than two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.

To make the use of these portable lights more certain and easy, the lanterns containing them shall each be painted outside with the color of the light they respectively contain, and shall be provided with proper

screens.

ART. 8. No alteration.

ART. 9. (a) A pilot-vessel, whether under sail or steam, when engaged on her station on pilotage duty, shall not show 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.

When approaching a vessel to put a pilot on board, or where there is risk of collision with another vessel, such pilot-vessel shall have at hand two lights, which may be the side lights, one red and one green, so constructed that they can be flashed instantaneously, which shall be kept either in their places, screened, or at hand, always ready for use, and shall flash one of them (in order to show the direction in which she is heading) in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the red light shall only be shown on the port side and the green light only on the starboard side.