Navigation Rules-Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea. where the green light of one ship is opposed to the green light of the other; or where a red light without a green light, or a green light without a red light, is seen a-head; or where both green and red lights are seen anywhere but a-head. &c. ORDER IN COUNCIL relating to the Navigation of the Inland Naviga- At the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of May, 1870. Navigation WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said recited act, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to make the rules contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, concerning the lights and signals to be carried, and concerning the steps for avoiding collision to be taken, by vessels navigating the several inland navigations called the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal, and the Runcorn and Weston Canal, or any of them. Schedule referred to in the foregoing Order. Rules concerning the lights and signals to be carried, and concerning the steps for avoiding collision to be taken, by vessels navigating the several inland navigations called the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal, and the Runcorn and Weston Canal, or any of them. 1. In this order the term "vessel" includes ships, boats, barges, craft, packets, and vessels of every kind navigating or being upon or in any part of the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal, and the Runcorn and Weston Canal, or any of them, or on or in any cut, canal or other works belonging to the said navigations or any of them. 2. No vessel shall be navigated on any of the said navigations referred to in the foregoing order, without a rudder at the stern, unless duly authorized by some agent of the owners of, or body of persons interested in, the respective navigations on which the same shall be navigated. 3. No vessel shall be navigated without one person, at the least, on board competent to steer and manage her, and acquainted with the ordinary rules of navigating on canals. 4. No vessel shall lie or be left without a person on board capable of taking care thereof. 5. No vessel shall lie or be left between sunset and sunrise without having a bright white light so fitted, placed or arranged that it shall be visible fore and aft. This light shall be of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, for a distance of at least one mile. Rules 6. No vessel shall be navigated through a tunnel, either by day or by night, Navigation without carrying a light visible fore and aft; such light to be of the description and power named in the preceding rule. 7. Nothing shall be allowed to project beyond the sides of any vessel. Bridgewater, &c. 8. No vessel shall be placed or lie so as to obstruct the passage of any other Navigation. vessel into or out of any lock, dock, bridgeway, stop-place, aqueduct, or tunnel, or enter any such lock, dock, bridgeway, stop-place, aqueduct or tunnel, out of its turn. 9. No vessel shall remain or be placed so as to obstruct the passage upon and along any part of the said canals respectively. 10. No vessel shall be moored in any dock entrance, bridgeway, stop-place, aqueduct or tunnel. 11. No attempt shall be made to moor a vessel in any basin, dock, or cut, or near any wharf, warehouse or crane, contrary to the orders of an agent of the owners of, or body interested in, the said navigations respectively. 12. Every vessel which would, if not stopped, meet another vessel on a part of any of the said navigations where two vessels cannot pass each other, shall stop at the passage place until the other vessel shall have passed clear of her. 13. No vessel shall be or remain at the entrance to any dock or basin, or in any bridgeway, stop-place, aqueduct or tunnel, or at any crane or wharf, longer than is necessary for passing through or using the same. 14. No attempt shall be made so to load, unload, moor or berth any vessel in any lock, dock, basin, bridgeway, stop-place, tunnel or aqueduct, or so near thereto as to obstruct the passage thereof. 15. The line of every vessel going down the navigation shall be lowered and give way to every passing vessel going up the navigation, unless the vessel going down the navigation is a passenger packet, in which case the vessel going up the navigation and not being a passenger packet shall give way to the passenger packet.. 16. The line of every vessel not being a passenger packet, and whether light or loaded, shall be lowered and give way to a passenger packet. 17. Every vessel not being a passenger packet shall, whenever a passenger packet is within one hundred yards from any lock, bridge, aqueduct or tunnel give way to such passenger packet, and let it pass first through such lock, bridge, aqueduct or tunnel. 18. There shall be a driver in attendance upon every horse hauling any vessel, or being upon any hauling road or towing path. 19. Every steam vessel shall be furnished with a loud and shrill steam whistle, and such steam whistle shall be placed before the funnel, not less than three feet above the deck or gunwale of such vessel, and shall be so fitted that it shall be blown by the steam from the boiler of the vessel. 20. The steam whistle of every vessel under steam shall be sounded as follows, viz., when such vessel is about to round and is rounding any turnings in the navigation, as well as when such vessel is meeting, approaching, or overtaking any vessel. 21. Every vessel under steam, when passing a vessel not under steam, shall pass the vessel not under steam on the off side thereof. 22. Every vessel not under steam shall take the towing path side when meeting or passing, or approaching to, or being overtaken by, a vessel under steam. 23. Every vessel under steam meeting another vessel under steam shall, if going down the navigation, take the off-side, and shall, if coming up the navigation, take the towing path side. 24. Every vessel under steam overtaking another vessel under steam shall take the off-side. 25. Every vessel under steam, when being overtaken by another vessel under steam, shall take the towing path side. 26. Every vessel under steam shall check her speed when meeting, overtaking, or approaching any vessel, and shall stop and reverse if necessary. 27. No person shall, without being duly authorized by some agent of the owners of, or body interested in, the said several navigations respectively, cut any mooring line, or uninoor or cut adrift any vessel. Navigation The Order in Council of the 6th of April, 1866, providing that the regulations for the navigation of the mouths of the River Danube enacted by the European commission of that river on the 2nd of November, 1865, and sanctioned and amended by the Protocol of the 28th of March, 1866, shall have the force of law upon and against all British subjects and other persons subject to the jurisdiction of her Majesty's Consuls General, &c., within the dominions of the Sublime Porte, it is not considered advisable to set out. Navigation The Orders in Council made in pursuance of the Dockyard Ports ORDER IN COUNCIL relating to the Navigation of the Mersey and At the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of May, 1870. Navigation WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," 66 And whereas the Company of Proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. Navigation are a body corporate owning or exercising jurisdiction upon the inland navigation called The Mersey and Irwell Navigation," and have made application to her Majesty to make rules concerning the lights or signals to be carried, and concerning the steps for avoiding collision to be taken, by vessels navigating the said inland navigation: Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said recited act, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to make the rules contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, concerning the lights and signals to be carried, and concerning the steps for avoiding collision to be taken, by vessels navigating the inland navigation called the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing Order. Rules concerning the Lights and Signals to be carried, and concerning the Steps for avoiding collision to be taken, by Vessels navigating the Inland Navigation called the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. [The remainder of the schedule is, mutatis mutandis, the same in substance as the corresponding portion of the schedule referred to in the Order relating to the navigation of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, supra, p. 46.] Navigation RulesMersey and Irwell Navigation. ORDER IN COUNCIL relating to the Navigation of the River Mersey below Warrington Bridge. At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of June, 1866. Present,―The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS, by the 31st section of " The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that—[Here follows a recital of the section in question]: And whereas by the 32nd section of the said recited act, it is further enacted that [Here follows a recital of the section in question]: And whereas the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, being the Harbour Trust owning and exercising jurisdiction upon the waters of the River Mersey and in the sea channels and approaches thereto, have, under the circumstances provided for by the last-recited section of the said act, applied to her Majesty in Council to make certain rules, which they have submitted for approval concerning the lights and signals, and concerning the steps for avoiding collision, to be taken by vessels navigating such waters: And whereas the rules so submitted as aforesaid appear to be reasonable and proper: Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the powers in her vested by the 32nd section of the said recited act, and by and with the approval of her Privy Council, doth hereby make the said rules which are set forth in the schedule hereto. SCHEDULE. Rules concerning the Lights or Signals to be carried, and concerning the Steps for avoiding Collision to be taken, by Vessels navigating the River Mersey. 1. All vessels, as well sailing vessels as steamers, including river craft exceeding 10 tons measurement, while navigating or anchoring in any part of the river Mersey below Warrington Bridge, shall, save as mentioned in the third rule, observe and obey the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea" set out in Table C in the schedule to the act 25 & 26 Vict. c. 63, the short title of which is "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," together with the additional regulations following: 2. Canal flats, or vessels without masts, being towed, shall carry the lights prescribed for sailing vessels by Articles 5 and 6 of the said Table C. 3. The single bright light, prescribed by Article 7 of the same table, is to be carried by all vessels when at anchor in the Mersey or the sea channels or approaches thereto at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, suspended from the forestay, or otherwise near the bow of the vessel where it can be best seen; and in addition to the said light all ships or vessels having two or more masts shall exhibit another bright light, at double the height of the bow Navigation Rules- Navigation lights, at the main or mizen peak, or the boom topping lift, or other position near the stern where it can be best seen. MEMORANDUM.-The above are all the new rules which the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board think needful to suggest, with a view to extending to the river Mersey the useful regulations prescribed by the said act, but they propose to add the following by way of notice only:- NOTICE.-By the 29th section of the act aforesaid (a), it is provided that, in case of a collision, if it be shown that either vessel has infringed any of the regulations for preventing collisions for the time being in force, such vessel shall be deemed in fault. ORDERS IN COUNCIL relating to the Navigation of the River Thames. I. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 5th day of February, 1872. Present, The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. Navigation WHEREAS by "The Thames Conservancy Act, 1857” (b), it is enacted that Rules- the Conservators of the River Thames shall have power and authority, Thames from time to time, to make bye-laws for the regulation, management, and River. improvement of the river Thames, and the navigation thereof, in the manner thereby provided, and to impose penalties, not exceeding five pounds, for the breach or non-performance of such bye-laws: And whereas by the forty-seventh section of the said act, it is enacted that no such bye-laws shall be in force until the same have been sent to the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and shall have been approved by one of them: And whereas by the thirty-first section of "The Thames Conservancy Act, 1864" (c), it is enacted that from and after the 31st day of December, 1864, sect. 47 of "The Thames Conservancy Act, 1857," shall be repealed, and that bye-laws made after the commencement of such repeal, under the authority of either of the said recited acts, shall not have any force unless and until they are allowed by Order of her Majesty in Council: And whereas, by the forty-first section of "The Thames Navigation Act, 1866" (d), it is enacted that, from the passing of the said act, the conservators of the River Thames shall have the same or the like powers and authorities over and with respect to the Thames and Isis, from Staines to Cricklade, as they have, by virtue of "The Thames Conservancy Acts, 1857 and 1864," over and with respect to the Thames below Staines: And whereas, by the forty-second section of the same act, it is enacted that the provisions of the said Conservancy Acts of 1857 and 1864, respecting bye-laws, shall extend and apply to bye-laws for the purposes of the Upper Navigation Acts, or the said " Thames Navigation Act, 1866:" And whereas, by the ninth section of "The Thames Navigation Act, 1870" (a) The section in question is re- (b) 20 & 21 Vict. c. cxlvii. (d) 29 & 30 Vict. c. 89. (e): (e) This recital is omitted as referring only to the power to make byelaws for the regulation of pleasure boats. See the 33 & 34 Vict. c. cxlix. |