British Merchant Service Journal: A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Interest of the Service, Volumen3Shipmasters' Society, 1881 |
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Admiralty Court appears asked Assessors assistance attention Benin Board of Trade British Merchant Service Camarinas Cape Captain cause chart coast collision command Committee conduct costs counsel course Courts of Inquiry crew DANKWERTS default doubt Duke of Buccleuch duty Engadine evidence Explosion Bill fact feel gentlemen give given hear Indian Chief investigation judge judgment justice letter light-ships look-out lordships Marine Department master mariner master's certificate masters and officers mate Mercantile Marine Merchant Navy Merchant Service Journal miles nautical navigation Navy opinion owners position practical presiding proceedings published punish question reason Receiver of Wreck remarks ROBERT PHILLIMORE Rothery Royal Naval Reserve rule sailing vessel sailors Secretary Shipmasters shipowners shipping casualties shore side-lights Society solicitor steamer stranding suspended telegraphic Tonnage Trinity House Ushant witnesses Wreck Commissioner Wreck Commissioner's Court Wreck Court wrong
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Página 552 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 606 - Upon the nature and causes of any accident or damage which any ship has sustained or caused, or is alleged to have sustained or caused...
Página 529 - O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!
Página 534 - A Court of Inquiry may be assembled by any officer in command to assist him in arriving at a correct conclusion on any subject on which it may be expedient for him to be thoroughly informed.
Página 596 - Dealing with these 902 cases only, we find that the winds that have been most fatal to shipping on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year were as follow : — N. to E. inclusive, 283 ; E. by S. to S. inclusive, 175 ; S. by W. to W. inclusive, 292; and W".
Página 585 - ... 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.
Página 349 - I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the...
Página 451 - Cheerful submission to superiors, self-respect and independence of character, kindness and protection to the weak, readiness to forgive offence, a desire to conciliate the differences of others, and, above all, fearless devotion to duty and unflinching truthfulness.
Página 529 - Crown, p. 313, that it would be a most unhappy case for the judge himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon his directions, and unhappy also for the prisoner; as, if the judge's opinion must rule the verdict, the trial by jury would be useless.
Página 595 - The number of ships is in excess of the casualties reported, because in cases of collision two or more ships are, of course, involved in one casualty. Thus 701 were collisions, and 2,801 were wrecks and casualties other than collisions.