The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities

by Felix Riesenberg

• 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]

S

• 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]

T

• 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]

U

• 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]

V

• 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]

W