Index

Page numbers in bold-face type indicate reference to the Navigation Laws.

Abandonment of seamen, [297]
Able seamen, duties, [236]-240
Advance, [265]
Agreement, form of, [241]-242
- in coasting trade, [256]
- in foreign trade, [249], [250]
Allingham, [319]
Allotment of wages, [265], [266], [267]
Alongside, [96]
Amendments to Rule V, [155]
Amplitudes, [181]
Anchor watch, [74]
Anchorage data, [73]
Anchoring, [95]
Application for register, [9]
Apprentices, [244], [248], [249]
Arbitration, [270]
Arms, export to American countries, [61]
- sale of, [62]
Arson, [295]
Assault, [293]
Assistance at sea, [62], [63]
Average, general, [51], [52]
Awnings, [77]

Baggage, [12]
Barratry, [298]
Berth, fair or foul, [75]
Bills of lading, [75], [84]
Boarding, [24], [25], [26]
Boat covers, [77]
- falls, [108]
- handling, [105]
Boatswain, [78]
- duties, [234], [235]
Boatswain's stores, [77]
Bond, general libel, [57], [58]
Books, [319]
Bowditch, [319]
Bradford, [319]
Bribery, [50], [51]
Bridge, persons allowed on, [170]
Bullion and coin, [21]
Buoys, [111]

Cadets, laws, duties, [145]
Captain, call, [179]
Cargo, battens, [79]
- care of, [82]
- chilled beef, [87]
- comparison of cargo and manifest, [39]
- clusters, [74], [75]
- coal-trimming, [85]
- coal-ventilation, [85]
- cotton, [86]
- damage to, [83]
- delivery in various districts, [33], [34]
- diagrams, [75], [84]
- duty to, [82]
- explosive, [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71]
- frozen, [87]
- gear, [75], [80]
- general, [87], [88]
- grain, [86]
- in bulk, [31]
- inflammable, [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71]
- kinds, [84]
- munitions, [89]
- ore, [85]
- pilfering, [83]
- re-export, [31]
- returns of unlading, [47], [48]
- special, [88]
- stowage, [83]
- ventilation, [84]
- wet coal, [85]
Carpenter, [73], [78]
- duties, [231]-232, [233]
- stores, [77]
Cask fenders, [74]
Casting away vessels, [299]
Ceiling, [79]
Chafe, [74]
Chief Mate, the, [72]
- coastwise, [162]
- duties, [73], [74], [75]
- duties at sea, [100], [101], [102]
- duties in port, [78]
- examination, [161]
- License, [149]
- qualifications, [72]
- reports for duty, [72]
- service, [159]
- Vessel in stream, [73]
Charts, pilot, [181]
Clearance, form of, [20]
Clothing, exempt from attachment, [267]
Coal, [35]
Coaling, [97]
- gear, [77]
Cork fenders, [74]
Cost data, [89]
Collision, [175]
Coming alongside, [96]
- to anchor, [95]
Complaints re provisions, [12]
Construction, future, [105]
Conventions, [269]
Corporal punishment, [290]
Crew, [76]
- failure to produce, [253]
- ill treatment of, [297]
- papers relating to, [254]
- quarters, inspection, [75]
Crimes, [291]-300

Dangerous conditions, [176]
Davits, test of, [106], [107]
Death from negligence, [169]
- negligence, misconduct, [294]
Deck, [178]
- crew, [78]
- engineer, [73]
- room, [115]
Delivery, ports of, [29], App. A
Desertion, abroad, [268]
- of foreign seamen in U. S., [268]
Discharge, [245]
Discharging, [75]
Discharge in foreign ports, [258]
- in foreign trade, [257]
Discipline at sea, [286]-287
Distress, vessels in, [48], [49]
Docking, notes on, [99], [100]
Docking plan, [98]
Dodgers, [77]
Draft, [75]
Drift lead, [74]
Dry dock, entering, [98]
- blue prints, [98]

Engagement, period of, [251]
Engineer's license, [150]
Entry and clearance, [18]
- of merchandise, [27], [38]
- Ports of, [28], App. A
- post, [47]
Examinations, Chief and second mate coastwise, [164]
- master, [156]
- original license, [153]
- Third mate coastwise, [165]
Exemption, militia duty, [241]
- of private property at sea, [62]
Export of arms, [61]
- merchandise laden for, [32]
- transfer of imported merchandise, [32]

Fees, [21]
Fellow-servant clause, [283]
Fire-fighting equipment, [92]
Fire lines, [75]
Fire, protection against, [63], [64], [65]
Flogging, [290]
Forgery, [296]
Freeboard, [83]

Gangway, [74]
General average, [51]-52
General libel bond, [57], [58]
Great Lakes, licenses, [166]
- crimes on, [300]
Ground tackle, [94]
Gun, drill with line carrying, [113]
- line carrying, [112]
- tests, [112]

Harbor defenses, [61]
- regulations, [92]
Harter Act, [55], [56], [57]
Hatch battens, [76]
- covers, [76]
Hawsers, [77]
Heaving in, [95]
- lines, [74]
Holds, [75]
- preparation to receive cargo, [78], [79], [80]
Hose, on foc's'le, [73]

Ice, [176]
- obstruction by, [49]
Illegal boarding, [24]
- unlading, [39], [40]
Inland licenses, [165]
- Rules of road, [185]-222
- waters—limits, [222]-228
Inspection of inward manifests by boarding officers, [35], [36], [37], [38]
Instructions for gun and rocket apparatus, [113]
Insurance, war risk, [283], [284], [285]
International Rules of Road, [184]-220
Inventories, [76]
Invoices, [84]

Jacoby, navigation, [319]
Junior officers, duties, [133]
Jurisdiction over seamen, [277], [278], [279]

Keys, [92]
Keys, master, [92]
Knight, [319]

Larceny, [295]
Laws effecting duties of master, [9]
Lecky, [319]
Log books, [15], [16], [17]
Look out, [176]
Liability of owners, masters, shippers, [53], [54], [55]
Libel bond, general, [57], [58]
Licenses, duration of, [147]
- renewal of, [154]
Liens for freight or general average, [51], [52]
Lifeboats, care of, [108]
- equipment, [103]
- how carried, [105]
- launching, [108]
- manning, [108]-[109]
- marking of, [107]
- men, certificated, [108]-109
- provisions, [104]
Life buoys, ring, [111]
- preservers, [111]
- rafts, equipment, [110]
  - care of, [110]
  - manning, [109]
  - marking, [110]
- saving equipment, [77], [94] [105]
Lighters, [73]
Lights, running, [179]
Live stock, [90]
Lodgers, [270]
Luminous buoys, [111]

Mail, [129]
Manifest, [18], [19], [20], [27], [28], [30], [31]
Manning of merchant vessels, [280], [281], [282]
Manslaughter, [292]
Mast covers, [77]
Master, the, [1]
- acting as pilot, [151]
- always in command, [4]
- articles, [2]
- authority over pilot, [4]
- authority to protect lives and property, [8]
- authority to suspend officers, [8]
- cannot delegate responsibility, [4]
- certificate of inspection, [7]
- change of, [9]
- charter, [4]
- coaling, [2]
- coastwise, [157]
- correct lading, [3]
- course of vessel, [7]
- declaration of, [29], [30]
- delivery of specie and cargo, [3]
- departure, [7]
- disaster, [8]
- drills, [7]
- duties, [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]
- enters and clears, [3]
- examination, [156]
- general management of vessel, [2]
- insurance, [3]
- keeps official log, [2]
- keeps wage account, [4]
- last to leave ship, [8]
- laws, must be familiar with, [3]
  - of port, [5]
- liability, [53], [54], [55], [169]
- license, [149]
- licensed engineer officer on duty, [3]
- licensed officer always in charge, [4]
- live stock, [5]
- maneuvering vessel, [3]
- medicine chest, [3]
- navigator, [5]
- navigation laws, [8]
- oath-manifest, [18]
- oath of citizenship, [9]
- official log book, [5]
- passengers, [4], [7]
- property of deceased persons, [7]
- punishments to crew, [5]
- qualifications, [2]
- removal of, [152]
- report to U. S. Local Inspectors, [7]
- represents owner, [4]
- report on accidents, [7]
- responsibilities, [1], [2], [4]
- rules of road, [5]
- safe carrying of mail, [4]
  - navigation, [2]
- sail, [158]
- scale of provisions, [3]
- service required, [155]
- ship's log book, [7]
- ship must be well found, [2]
- skill, [8]
- slop chest, [3]
- smuggling, [5]
Mate, acting as pilot, [151]
Mayhem, [294]
Medicines and anti-scorbutics, [14]
Merchandise, fraudulent importation, [50]
- salvage of, [49], [55]
- vessels, manning, [280], [282], [282]
Mines, [61], [62]
Miscellaneous laws, [59]
Mooring lines, [73], [74]
Murder, [292]
Muster-list roll and drill, [114]-115
Mutiny, [297]

Navigation, [319]
Navigating gear, [77]
- officer, [129]-130
Navy ration, [60], [61]
Night orders, [176], [177], [178]

Oath of officer, [151]
Offenses, [287], [288], [289]
Offenses against registry law, [9]
- miscellaneous, [296]
Officer's citizenship, [146]
- license, [148], [149]
- serving during war, [148]
Orders, night, [178]
- standing, [177]
Owner's liability, [53], [54], [55]
- may ship seamen, [248]

Pacific Islanders, sale of arms to, [62]
Painting, bottom, [99]
Paints, [77]
Papers, deposit of, [21]
Passengers, [90]
Passenger accommodations, [116], [117], [118], [119]
- Act of 1882, [116]
- vessel, boarding, [124]
- steamer, cattle on board, [123]
- carriage of, [126]
- cleanliness, [122]
- death of, [125]
- discipline, [122]
- embarkation in boats and rafts, [108]
- steamer, explosives on board, [123]
  - inspection, [125]
- light and air, [119], [120]
- list, [124]
- medical attendance, [121], [122]
- act, penalties, [125]-126
- privacy, [122]-123
- provisions, [121]
Passports, [22]-23
Permit to unlade by night, [40], [41], [42]
Pilot's license, [151]
Piracy, [300], [301], [302], [303]
Plundering vessel, [299]
Pilot, must yield to master, [4]
Ports of entry, [29], App. A
Post entry, [47]
Provisions, scale of, [243]
Provisions and water, [11]
Private property, exemption at sea, [62]
Procedure, [290]
Projectiles, line carrying, [113]
Propeller signs, [74]
Protection against fire, [63], [64], [65]
Punishments, [287], [288], [289]

Quartermasters, [78], [182]
- duties, [229]-230

Rafts, handling, [105]
Rape, [293]
Rat guards, [75], [97]
Ration, navy, [60], [61]
Reduction of allowance, [13]
Responsibility, watch officers, [172]
Riding lights, [74]
Robbery, [295]
Rockets, [112]
Rose boxes, [79]
Rules of road, [173], [184]-221
Rule, unwritten, [174]

Sails, [77]
Sale of arms to Pacific Islanders, [62]
Salvage at sea, [62], [63]
Salvage of merchandise, [49], [50]
School ships, [59], [60]
Sea letters, [22], [23]
Sea library, [319]
Seamen, abandonment of, [297]
- effects of deceased, [272]-276
- naturalization of, [245]
Seamen, rescuing shipwrecked American, [59]
- return of, [271]
- shipment in coasting trade, [255]
- sick and disabled, [276], [277]
- witness fees, [279]
Search, [24], [25], [26]
Sea stores, [34], [35]
Second mate, [78], [128], [129], [160], [161], [163]
Seduction, [293]
Service, substituting, [155]
Sheath knives, [289]
Shipment, before consul, [252]
Shipment without agreement, penalty, [251]
Shipments, illegal, [247]
Shipper's liability, [53], [54], [55]
Shipping commissioner, [270]
Shipping officers, [246]
Ship's register, [9]
- school, [59], [60]
Shipwrecked American seamen rescuing, [59]
Side ladders, [74]
- screens, [77]
Signal gear, [77]
Skids, [74]
Slop chest, [14]
Smoke helmets, [87]
Smothering lines, [79]
Solicitation of bribes, [50], [51]
Soliciting lodgers, [270]
Sounding pipes, [76]
Stairways, [115]
State inspection laws, [20]
Station bill, [75], [76]
Steamer's name on equipment, [114]
Steel strongbacks, [76]
Stevedores, [82]
Stolen property, [295]
Stores, receiving, [92]
Storm oil, [113]
Supervising Inspector General, Recommendations, [180]

Tank steamers, [90]-91
Tarpaulins, [76], [77]
Telegraph, [73]
Third mate, [78], [131], [132], [161], [162], [164]
Todd and Whall, [319]
Torpedoes, [61]
Treaties, [269]
Trial, place of, [291]
Turning to, [92], [93]
Twin screws, [74]

Undermanning, [283]
Unloading by day, [42], [43]
- by night, [40]
- supervision of, [43], [44], [45]
- time limit for, [46]
Upkeep, [93]
Unseaworthy vessels, [283]
U. S. Local Inspectors, [7]
- Supervising Inspectors, rules relating to life saving, [103]

Ventilator covers, [77]
Vessel alongside, [74]
- casting away, [299]
Vessels, different types, [76]
- exempt from entry, [34]
- in distress, [48], [49]
Vessels, overtaken, [179]
- plundering, [299]
- unseaworthy, [283]

Wages, [260]-265
- exempt from attachment, [267]
Walton, [319]
War documents, [22], [23]
Warmth and clothing, [15]
War risk insurance, [283], [284], [285]
War zone, [179]
- precautions, [105]
Waterline, striking, [100]
Water plugs, [75]
Watch officer, [167]
- duty, [167]
  - in port, [183]
  - not citizens, [147]
Watch-relieving, [170]
- rest before going on, [169]
Watches, three, [168]
Wedges, [76]
Weights and measures, [13]
- of persons, [107]
Whistle signals, [81]
White, [319]
Windlass notes, [73]
Wooden steamers, [86]
- warehouse, [74]
Working boat, [74]
- cargo, [81]
Work of Chief mate, [76]
Wrecking, [298]

Zig-zag, [180]

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