Point?
Witness—About a ship's length from dry bank, and below the Feima Channel marks.
The Court—Do you consider the position had of the three vessels marked there Captain Fergusson's chart) accurate itness—As nearly right as possible.
'The Court—You state that on the bar a vessel with the tide has the right, of way; where is your authority Witness—The recommendation issued by' Captain Bisbee Aistinetly request vessels not to meet on the bar.. The vessel coming on the flood tide must needs cross; thie other vessel can hang back. It is a recommendation issued by Captain Bisbee of the Phe Court—Are you aware that particu:
nest of everybody.
recommendation has not the force of Witness—Yes, Tam, The Court—Where is your authority Witness—The ordinary caution used by a seaman to avoid accidents, The President at this stage read the following letter Coast Inspector's Office, Shanghai, 4th May, 1896, Smm,—Referring to your application of this; date to the Commissioner of Customs for certain members of the Customs staff at this ort to appear and give evidence atthe Naval to be held at the British Consulate on the 7th inst., of which Court. you are appoint.
to act "as President, and to our con. versation to-day, relative to local rules for navigation, I beg to state as follows I recommended, in Notice to Mariners No,:23 (Special), dated the 14th January, 1893, that, in order to facilitate traffic and prevent accidents, certain Rules, (Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4) observed by all vessels approaching the Woo: which appeared in' that Notice should be sung Inner Bar.
ose Rules were intended as a guide to vessels having to cross the Bar when there aware two channels available, namd Feima Channel and Bar Lines, and with the former -the. deeper of the two; but Rule 4 of Notice No. 23 (Special) and that part of Rule 2 of the same Notice which refers to the.shoalest.part of the Bar in the line of the Old Bark Marks are always applicable, whether there be one or two channels across the Bar.
Subsequently, in Notice to Mariners No. 46 (Special) published on the 29th November, 1894, (the marks for the Feima Channel being then discontinued on account of the shallowness of the water in it) captains and pilots were notified not to attempt: to cross the Bar when drawitig more water than indicated by Notice to Mariners No. 49 (Special) dated the the signal at the Woosung Station; and in bth of June, 1895 (whilst the Feima Channel called to the most important of the Ri was still closed), attention was again sies that had been published previously and it was enjoined that the look-out called for should in at or outside the Woosung Spit Buoy on board inward-bound vessels, and at or above the upper end of Gough Island on board of.outward-bounty ones, None of these Rules-have the force of law as no special authority for their enforcement, exists, They were simply put forward in the lief that their observance would lessen risk of collision and prevent the sudden shoaling
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