INTERNATIONAL AND INLAND RILES OF THE ROAD 



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When a vessel is backing (that is, 

 proceeding stern first) what rule gov- 

 erns its meeting with another vessel? 



What precautions are required by 

 the Rules for vessels nearing a bend in 

 a channel where approaching vessels 

 may not be visible? 



What would you do if cross signals 

 had been sounded in answer to your 

 passing signal? 



How are dredge or floating plant 

 moorings marked and, at night, how 

 is their location shown to an approach- 

 ing vessel? 



What is the rule regarding the speed 

 of vessels passing floating plants work- 

 ing in a channel? 



What lights and day signals are re- 

 quired to be displayed by inland steam- 

 vessels, derrick boats, lighters, or other 

 types of vessels made fast alongside a 

 wreck, or moored over a wreck which 

 is on the bottom, or partly submerged, 

 or which may be drifting? 



What is the inland rule danger sig- 

 nal? 



When should the Inland Rule danger 

 signal be used? 



Do the Rules give any specific or 

 special privileges to naval vessels to 

 take the right of way over a commercial 

 vessel at any time during the crossing 

 situation? 



How would you know on which side 

 it would be clear to pass a dredge work- 

 ing in a channel, by day and by night? 

 Describe the lights to be displayed on 

 pipelines attached to dredges and either 

 floating or supported on trestles. 



In the crossing situation, should 

 either vessel fail to understand the 

 course or intention of the other, what 

 shall she immediately do and what ac- 

 tion must then be taken by both vessels? 

 What are the rules for sound signals 

 in a fog for : 



(a) A steam vessel ; 



(b) A sailing vessel; 



(c) A vessel at anchor; 



(d) A steam vessel when towing or 

 a vessel being towed ; 



(e) Rafts or other water craft? 



What is indicated by a vessel which 

 displays a day signal consisting of 2 

 red balls, 2 feet in diameter and 3 to 6 

 feet apart vertically, 15 feet above the 

 deck house? 



What is indicated by a vessel which 

 displays a day signal consisting of 2 

 balls, 2 feet in diameter, 3 to 6 feet 

 apart vertically, about 20 feet above the 

 deck house if the upper ball is painted 

 in alternate black and white vertical 



stripes and the lower ball is a solid 

 bright red? 



State the Pilot Rule governing the 

 action required when vessels are ap- 

 proaching each other at right angles 

 or obliquely, so as to involve risk of 

 collision, other than when one vessel is 

 overtaking another. 



How do the whistle signals under In- 

 land Rules for the overtaking situation 

 differ from the whistle signals under 

 International Rules? 



You are overtaking another steamer 

 and without altering your course, will 

 pass him a quarter mile off to port when 

 abeam. Would it be necessary to sound 

 a passing signal? Why? 



When two vessels are meeting in a 

 crossing situation, which vessel should 

 blow a passing sig:nal first? 



Describe the lights required in United 

 States Harbors (except the Hudson 

 River, etc.) for barges and canal boats 

 towed astern of steam vessels, when 

 towed singly, or what is known as tan- 

 dem towing. 



Describe the lights required in United 

 States Harbors (except the Hudson 

 River, etc.) for barges and canal boats 

 towed astern of steam vessels, when 

 two or more boats are abreast. 



Describe the lights required in United 

 States Harbors (except the Hudson 

 River, etc.) for barges, canal boats or 

 scows, when being pushed ahead of a 

 steam vessel. 



When two vessels are approaching 

 each other at right angles or obliquely, 

 what sig:nal signifies the intention of 

 the steam vessel which is to starboard 

 of the other to hold course and speed? 

 What is the rule regarding obstruc- 

 tion of a channel by a floating plant? 



What is the rule for the protection of 

 marks placed for the guidance of 

 dredges or floating plants? 



What is the rule regarding clearing 

 of channel by dredges or floating plants, 

 where regulations have not been pre- 

 scribed? 



What is signified by a steamer dis- 

 playing a day signal consisting of two 

 shapes in the form of a double frustum 

 of a cone, base to base, both shapes 

 painted a solid bright red? 



State the rule governing the bunch- 

 ing of tows. 



Under what circumstances must pass- 

 ing signals be given and answered? 



State what action you would take if 

 a vessel on your port bow and crossing 

 your course so as to involve risk of col- 

 lision fails to answer your passing sig- 

 nal of one short blast. 



