The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 41Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1872 - Naval art and science |
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Page 73 - ... regulation has been infringed shall be deemed to be in fault, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court that the circumstances...
Page 103 - Every steam ship of which a survey is hereby required shall be provided with a safety valve upon each boiler, so constructed as to be out of the control of the engineer when the steam is up, and, if such valve is in addition to the ordinary valve, it shall be so constructed as to have an area not less and a pressure not greater than the area of and pressure on that valve...
Page 73 - ... of the person in charge of the deck of the ship at the time, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the regulation necessary.
Page 391 - Cabinet includes the following ten members of the administration : the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the five Secretaries of State.
Page 562 - It is now my duty, in the name and on behalf of the Commons of the United Kingdom, to lay claim by humble Petition to Her Majesty to all their ancient and undoubted rights and privileges...
Page 961 - In every case where a passenger certificate has been granted to any steamer by the Board of Trade under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and remains still in force, it shall not be requisite for the purposes of the employment of such steamer under the Passengers Acts that she shall be again surveyed in her hull and machinery in order to qualify her for service under the Passengers Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the same; but for the...
Page 281 - Nothing in these Rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner, master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to Keep a proper look-out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 559 - Speaker of the house of commons should be first chosen that you, gentlemen of the house of commons, repair to the place where you are to sit, and there proceed to the...
Page 290 - ... a good and true Councillor ought to do to his Sovereign Lord.
Page 307 - There pois'd awhile above the bounding tides, His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest, And binds the sacred cincture round his breast: Then prone on ocean in a moment flung, Stretch'd wide his eager arms, and shot the seas along. All naked now, on heaving billows laid, Stern Neptune...