steamer, a red light on the port side of the barge, canal boat or scow; and if there is more than one barge, canal boat or scow abreast, the colored lights shall be displayed from the outer side of the outside barges, canal boats or scows. § 312.16 NOTE. This rule as amended, effective April 1, 1944, puts barges, canal boats and scows under the same lights (1) if towed alongside so as to obscure a side light on the tug; (2) if pushed ahead of the towboat. If towed astern, note that scows are in a different class from barges and canal boats. No lights are specified for barges and canal boats towed alongside which do not obscure the tug's side light, but inasmuch as no load alongside would obscure a side light from ahead, they may be lighted in the same manner as if they did obscure it without misleading a meeting vessel. A scow would show 2 white lights, one on each outboard corner. Barges, Canal Boats, or Scows Being Towed by Pushing Ahead Barges, canal boats or scows shall, when being propelled by pushing ahead of a steam vessel, display a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow of the head barge, canal boat or scow, carried at a height sufficiently above the superstructure of the barge, canal boat or scow as to permit said side lights to be visible; and if there is more than one barge, canal boat or scow abreast, the colored lights shall be displayed from the outer side of the outside barges, canal boats or scows. The colored side lights referred to in these rules for barges, canal boats and scows in tow shall be fitted with inboard screens so as to prevent them from being seen across the bow, and of such a character as to be visible on a dark night, with a clear atmosphere, at a distance of at least 2 miles, and so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an are of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, and so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on either side. The minimum size of glass globes shall not be less than 6 inches in diameter and 5 inches high in the clear. § 312.16 NOTE-A towboat which is pushing her tow in inland waters must carry only the running lights of a steam vessel under way. The signal of 2 white towing lights is reserved for a tug with tow alongside and the signal of 3 white towing lights for a tug with tow astern. INLAND (New York Harbor and vicinity, Hudson River, Lake Champlain, East River, Long Island Sound) Lights for Barges, Canal Boats, or Scows Being Towed NOTE-Barges, canal boats, scows, carfloats, lighters, etc., carry similar lights in this area. All nondescript vessels known as scows, car floats, lighters, and vessels of similar type, navigating the waters referred to in the following rules, shall carry the lights required to be carried by barges and canal boats in tow of steam vessels, as prescribed in such rules. § 312.17 SPECIAL LIGHTS FOR VESSELS BEING TOWED Barges, canal boats, or scows astern, 3 abreast in 3 tiers. Barges, canal boats, or scows astern, 3 abreast in 1 tier, viewed from more than 2 points abaft the beam. Barges, canal boats, or scows alongside, 2 abreast on each side. SPECIAL LIGHTS FOR VESSELS BEING TOWED Barges, canal boats, or scows alongside, 2 on each side in tandem. Lights for Such Non-Propelled Vessels Being Towed Astern Barges and canal boats, when being towed by steam vessels on the waters of the Hudson River and its tributaries from Troy to the boundary lines of New York Harbor off Sandy Hook, as defined pursuant to section 2 of the act of Congress of February 19, 1895 (28 Stat. 672; 33 U. S. C. 151), the East River and Long Island Sound (and the waters entering thereon, and to the Atlantic Ocean), to and including Narragansett Bay, R. I., and tributaries, and Lake Champlain, shall carry lights as follows: (a) Barges and canal boats being towed astern of steam vessels when towing singly shall carry a white light on the bow and a white light on the stern. SINGLY (b) When towing in tandem, "close up," each boat shall carry a white light on its stern and the first or hawser boat shall, in addition, carry a white light on its bow. O TANDEM-CLOSE UP (c) When towing in tandem with intermediate hawser between the various boats in the tow, each boat shall carry a white light on the bow and a white light on the stern, except that the last vessel in the tow shall carry two white lights on her stern, athwartship, horizontal to each other, not less than 5 feet apart and not less than 4 feet above the deck house, and so placed as to show all around the horizon: Provided, That seagoing barges shall not be required to make any change in their seagoing lights (red and green) on waters coming within the scope of the rules of this section, except that the last vessel of the tow shall carry two white lights on her stern, athwartship, horizontal to each other, not less than 5 feet apart, and not less than 4 feet above the deck house, and so placed as to show all around the horizon. |