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(From yesterday's Government Gazette.) The Board appointed under the revisions of the Act of the Governor and Council, 11th Victoria, No. 3, for the regulation of seagoing steam and other vessels, carrying passengers, having had under consideration a copy of an order issued by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, regarding lights to be exhibited by steam-vessels with a view to preventing collisions, have, with the approval of His Excellency the Governor, determined that from and after the expiration of one month from the date of the publication of this notice, the following conditions shall be observed with respect to the mast-head and paddle-box lights at present carried by all steam-going vessels under the amended regulations published in the Government Gazette of the 29th December, 1848, No. 147, that is to say: I . The mast. head lights to be visible at a distance of at least five miles in a clear dark night, and the lantern to be so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, viz.: - from right a-head to two points abaft the beam on each side of the ship. 2. The coloured side lights to be visible at a distance of at least two miles in a clear dark night, and the lanterns to be so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, viz.:- from right a-head to two points abaft the beam on their respective sides. 3. The side lights to be moreover fitted with in-board screens, of at least three feet long, to prevent them from being seen across the bow. The screens to be placed in a fore and aft line with the inner edge of the side lights. 4. The lantern used by steam vessels when at anchor, elsewhere than at their respective wharves at Sydney, or the out-ports, to be constructed so as to show a good light all round the horizon. J. Gibbes, President Approved, Charles A. Fits Roy 6th February, 1850. ^ back to top ^ |