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amount Anegada Passage average Balintang Channel board feet board feet contents Board Measure contents British Columbia cargo Cedar cent CHIG Chile coal color COMPUTE cord creosote cubic feet cubic foot deadweight deck deckload Diam divide by 12 Douglas Fir equals Example feet long fiber freight grade grain Harbor Hemlock Honolulu inches in diameter kiln knots loaded Long Tons lumber Magellan Strait Metric Mexico moisture Mona Passage Multiply lineal feet Nautical Miles Octagon Osumi Van Diemen p. m. today Panama Canal penetration Peru pieces piling Port Townsend pounds pulp Redwood result RSITY Rule San Bernardino Strait San Francisco sapwood sawn seasoned shingles ship shipment side space specific gravity Spruce square standard steamer stowage strength Suez Canal sulphite surface tanks timber trees Tsugaru St Unimak Passage UNIV UNIV vessel Wash weight westbound Western Hemlock Western Larch Western White Pine width Windward and Crooked wood
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Page 106 - If a ship, British or foreign, arrives between the last day of October and the sixteenth day of April in any year at any port in the United Kingdom from any port out of the United Kingdom, carrying as deck cargo, that is to say, in any uncovered space upon deck, or in any covered space not included in the cubical contents forming the ship's registered tonnage, any wood goods...
Page 85 - Measurements commonly expressed In gross tons or short tons are stated In metric tons (1,000 kilograms). The metric ton comes between our long and short tons and serves the purpose of both. The kilogram and "half kilo" serve for everyday trade, the latter being 10 per cent larger than the pound. The kilogram Is approximately 2.2 pounds. The gram and its multiples and divisions are used for the same purposes as ounces, pennyweights, drams, scruples and grains. For foreign postage 30 grains Is the...
Page 43 - Logs not less than 14 inches in diameter, not over 24 feet long or not less than 12 inches in diameter, and over 24 feet, sound, reasonably straight, free from rotten knots or bunch-knots, and the grain straight enough to ensure strength. No. 3. — Logs having visible defects, such as bad crooks, bad knots, or other defects that would impair the value and lower the grade of lumber below merchantable. Culls. — Logs lower in grade than No.
Page 107 - ... in the case of an uncovered space, not being a space forming the top of any permanent closed-in space on the upper deck or a space forming the top of a covered space, the height of the main rail, bulwark, or plating, or one-fourth of the inside breadth of the ship, or seven feet, whichever height is the least ; and (iii) in the case of a covered space the full height of that space.
Page 107 - ... any more than five spare spars or store spars, whether or not made, dressed, and finally prepared for use ; or (c) any deals, battens, or other light wood goods of any description to a height exceeding three feet above the deck.
Page 106 - ... that they must be carried only in such class of ships as may be approved by the Board of Trade for the purpose; and (c) that they must be loaded in accordance with regulations made by the Board of Trade with respect to the loading thereof. (3.) The conditions under which light wood goods may be carried as deck cargo are as follows: — (a) Each unit of the goods must be...
Page 69 - A sound knot is one which is solid across its face and which is as hard as the wood surrounding it; it may be either red or black, and is so fixed by growth or position that it will retain its place in the piece.
Page 107 - If he proves that the ship sailed from the port at which the wood goods were loaded as deck cargo at such time before the last day of October as allowed a sufficient interval according to the ordinary duration of the voyage for the ship to arrive before that day at the said port in the United...
Page 107 - Nothing in this section shall affect any ship not bound to a port in the United Kingdom which comes into any port of the United Kingdom under stress of weather, or for repairs, or for any other purpose than the delivery of her cargo.
Page 107 - British ship, being in any port of the United Kingdom, is, by reason of the defective condition of her hull, equipments, or machinery, or by reason of overloading or improper loading, unfit to proceed to sea without serious danger to human life, having regard to the nature of the service for which she is intended...