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Art. VII. Owners of ships or vessels who can prove that they have sacrificed an anchor, a net, 
or any other implement used in fishing, in order to avoid injuring a submarine cable, shall be indemni- 
fied by the owner of the cable In order to be entitled to such indemnity, one must prepare, whenever 
possible, immediately after the accident, in proof thereof, a statement supported by the testimony of 
the men belonging to the crew, and the captain of the vessel must, within twenty-four hours after at 
the first port of temporary entry, make his declaration to the competent authorities. The latter shall 
give notice thereof to the consular authorities of the nation to which the owner of the cable belongs. 
APPENDIX F. 
Convention between the United Kingdom and Denmark for regulating the Fisheries outside Territorial 
Waters in the Ocean surrounding the Farée Islands and Iceland. 
ARTICLE I. The provisions of the present Convention, the object of which is to regulate the police 
of the fisheries in the ocean surrounding the Farée Islands and Iceland outside the territorial waters of 
these islands, shall apply to the subjects of the High Contracting Parties. 
Art. II. The subjects of His Majesty the King of Denmark shall enjoy the exclusive right of fish- 
ery within the distance of three miles from low-water mark along the whole extent of the coasts of the 
said islands, as well as of the dependent islets, rocks, and banks. 
As regards bays, the distance of three miles shall be measured from a straight line drawn across 
the bay, in the part nearest the entrance, at the first point where the width does not exceed ten miles. 
The present article shall not prejudice the freedom of navigation or anchorage in territorial waters 
accorded to fishing boats, provided they conform to the Danish Police Regulations ruling this matter, 
amongst others the one stipulating that trawling vessels, while sojourning in territorial waters, shall 
have their trawling gear stowed away inboard. 
Arr. III. The miles mentioned in the preceding Article are geographical miles, whereof sixty make 
a degree of latitude. 
Art. IV. The geographical limits for the application of the present Convention shall be fixed as 
follows: 
On the south by a line commencing from where the meridian of North Unst Light-house 
(Shetland Islands) meets the parallel of 61st degree of north latitude to a point where the 9th 
meridian of west longitude meets the parallel of 60° north latitude, and from thence westward 
along that parallel to the meridian of 27° west longitude. 
On the west by the meridian of 27° west longitude. 
On the north by the parallel of 67° 30’ of north latitude. 
On the east by the meridian of the North Unst Light-house. 
The aforesaid limits are shown on the chart appended to the present Convention. 
Art. V. The fishing boats of the High Contracting Parties shall be registered in accordance with the 
administrative Regulations in force in their respective countries. 
For each port there shall be a consecutive series of numbers, preceded by one or two initial letters, 
which shall be specified by the superior competent authority. 
Each Government shall draw up a list showing these initial letters. 
This list, together with all modifications which may subsequently be made in it, shall be notified 
to the other Government. 
Art. VI. Fishing boats shall bear the initial letter or letters of the port to which they belong, and 
the registry number in the series of numbers for that port. 
Arr. VII. The name of each fishing boat and that of the port to which she belongs shall be painted 
in white oil colour on a black ground on the stern of the boat in letters which shall be at least eight 
centimétres in height and twelve millimétres in breadth. 
Art. VIII. The letter or letters and numbers which shall have been assigned to a vessel on its 
registration shall be painted in white oil colour on a black ground, and so as to be clearly visibleon each 
bow of the vessel, eight or ten centimétres below the gunwale, provided the space admitit. Theletters 
and numbers of vessels of fifteen tons burden (gross tonnage) and upwards shall he forty-five centi- 
métres in height and six centimétres in breadth. 
