To the Editor of the "Norri-Cinwa Dat News"
Sm—The writer would be interest-fed to have the opinion of your nautical readers on the following point:
sailing vessel is have to with sails "furled, "and riding to a sea-anchor. What navigation lights should she carry?
this case the conditions would be, that the vessel is making no headway through the water, Is drift Ing head to sea and wind, and Is not under command.
Should she carry the side lights perscribed for sailing vessols_under /way in the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, or should she exhibit the lights called for in the above rules for a steam vessel not under command, namely two red fights hoisted vertically the one Jabove the other and 6 feet apart, in leu of the white light?, The Rule Jot the Road apparently gives no def mite instructions as to what lights a sailing vessel not under command should carry, She cbviotsly could not exhibit a ding Night us she has no anchor out which touches the bottom.
Shanghai, Feb. 29,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.