Pilot

Pilot, a person taken on board at any particular place for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, road, or channel, or from or into a port, defined in s. 742 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, as meaning 'any person not belonging to a ship who has the conduct thereof.' Pilots are established in various parts of the country, by ancient charters of incorporation or by particular statutes. The most important of these in-corporations are those of the Trinity House, Deptford Stroned; the fellowship of the Pilots of Dover, Deal, and the Isle of Thanet, commonly called the Cinque Port Pilots; and the Trinity Houses of Hull and New castle. For the general law on the subject of pilots and pilotage, see the Pilotage Acts, 1913 (2 & 3 Geo. 5, c. 31) and amending Acts and the Pilotage Authorities (Limitation of Liability) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 36). Consult Digby and Cole on Pilots.Compulsory Pilots.--By the Act of 1913, s. 15 (reversing the Common Law rule), own...

Compulsory Pilot

Compulsory Pilot. See PILOT....

Branch pilot

A pilot who has a branch or commission as from Trinity House England for special navigation...

Sky pilot

A person licensed as a pilot...

Pilot flag

The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot in the United States the union jack in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border...

Master

Master [fr. meester, Dut.; maistre, Fr.; magister, Lat.], a director; a governor; a teacher; one who has servants; the head of a college; the captain of a ship; an officer of the Supreme Court; and see MASTERS.It means--(a) in relation to any vessel or aircraft means any person, other than a pilot, harbour master, assistant harbour master or berthing master, having for the time being the charge or control of such vessel or aircraft, as the case maybe; and(b) in relation to any boat belonging to a ship, means the master of that ship. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (g)]Includes any person (except a pilot or harbour master) having command or charge of a ship. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), s. 3(22)]In relation to any vessel or any aircraft making use of any port, means any person having for the time being the charge or control of such vessel or such aircraft, as the case may be, except a pilot, harbour master, assistant harbour master, dock master or berthing master o...

Hardtack

A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of unleavened hard biscuit or sea bread Called also pilot biscuit pilot bread ship biscuit and ship bread...

Crew-flight

Crew-flight, means those members of the crew of the aircraft who respectively undertakes to act as pilot, flight navigator, flight engineer and flight radio operation of the Aircraft, Air Navigation Order, 1989, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1344, p. 664...

Pilot light

a small gas flame kept burning continuously on a stove water heater or other gas burning device so as to allow immediate ignition of the main flame when the gas flow is turned on...

Pilot valve

A small hand operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand...

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