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Buoys and beacons
Buoys and beacons. As to supervision of these marks and signs of the sea, see ss. 634 et seq. And s. 742 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894....
Buoyage
Buoys taken collectively a series of buoys as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port the providing of buoys...
Trinity house
Trinity house, a society at Deptford Strond, incor-porated by Henry VIII. in 1515, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, lighthouses, buoys, etc., and stated in the preamble of 8 Eliz. c. 13 to be 'charged with the conduction of the Queen's Majesty's Navy Royal, and bound to foresee the good increase and maintenance of ships, and of all kinds of men trained and brought up to watercraft most meet for Her Majesty's marine service.' Under the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (q.v.), buoys are to be laid down as may be directed by, and lighthouses, beacons are not to be erected, nor are lights to be exhibited, without permission of Trinity House.The Trinity House, by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, repealing and re-enacting the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, is the chief lighthouse and pilotage authority for England, and the Scots and Irish Boards are to some extent under its control, Pulling's Shipping...
Buoy
A float esp a floating object moored to the bottom to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water as an anchor shoal rock etc...
Floating
Buoyed upon or in a fluid a the floating timbers of a wreck floating motes in the air...
VerbarJetsam
Goods which sink when cast into the sea and remain under water distinguished from flotsam goods which float and ligan or lagan goods which are sunk attached to a buoy...
Lanyard
A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships as the lanyards of the gun ports of the buoy and the like esp pieces passing through the dead eyes and used to extend shrouds stays etc...
Life preserver
An apparatus made in very various forms and of various materials for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water...
Ligan
Goods sunk in the sea with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again See Jetsam and Flotsam...
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