shall carry the coloured side lights prescribed in the regu lations for preventing collisions at sea,' or in lieu thereof the single lantern amidships with parti-coloured glass, as set forth in the foregoing paragraph.

Vessels to keep clear of any Fleet or Squadron assembled
at Spithead.

7. When any fleet or squadron is assembled at Spithead, no vessel shall pass through the line of such fleet or squadron, except in such directions as shall be announced. at the time by notice issued by the Admiralty, and published in the London Gazette.

Vessels not to approach Her Majesty's Ships carrying Royal or other Standard at Masthead.

8. No vessel shall unnecessarily approach within two cables of any ship of war, troopship, or royal yacht, carrying the royal or any other standard at the masthead, when under way in the waters of the dockyard port outside the limits of the harbour.

Regulations for Vessels going alongside certain Piers.

9. Steamers approaching or leaving the Clarence Esplanade, Ryde, or other piers, are to confine themselves to the lanes of approach marked by buoys laid by the Queen's harbour master, in which lanes anchorage is prohibited for the purpose of mutual safety.

Portsmouth Harbour.

Vessels to keep clear of Her Majesty's Ships.

10. When any of Her Majesty's ships, or other vessel in charge of Her Majesty's officers, about to pass in or out of the harbour, hoists the union jack at the foremast head,

1 See note to Plymouth, Regulation 6, 2nd Schedule, post, page 244.

all other of Her Majesty's ships present in the port shall hoist the pilot jack as a general warning, and the pilot jack will also be hoisted on the semaphore at the dockyard for the same purpose; and all other vessels, craft, and boats, of every description, under way in the harbour shall keep out of the way of the said ship flying the union jack; provided always that the said ship shall be navigated with due care, and at a moderate speed; and that she shall, so far as is practicable, be kept on the side of the fairway which lies on her own starboard side.

Regulations for Sailing and small Craft to keep clear of

Steamers.

11.-When any sea-going steamship, steam vessel towing steam dredger, or steam hopper, within the limits of the harbour, shall, by reason of the crowded nature of the channel, or anchorage, or from other cause, find it unsafe or impracticable to keep out of the way of a sailing vessel, or of a boat under oars or sail or steam or other mechanical power, she shall signify the same to the sailing vessel or boat by four or more short blasts of the steam whistle, blown in rapid succession; when the sailing vessel or boat shall keep out of the way of such steam vessel; provided always that the steam vessel shall be navigated with due and at a moderate speed.

care,

Speed of Vessels inside of Blockhouse Point not to exceed

5 knots.

12.-No merchant nor other private steam vessel when within the harbour inside Blockhouse Point, shall proceed at a greater rate of speed than 5 knots an hour over the ground.

Penalties.

13.-Identical in wording to Pembroke Regulation 10, 2nd

schedule.

PLYMOUTH.

The following Regulations were made by Order in Council of the 18th day of May, 1897, by virtue of the Dockyard Ports Regulation Act, 1865.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Limits of the Dockyard Port of Plymouth.

1.—The dockyard port of Plymouth shall be all the bays, creeks, lakes, pools, and rivers as far as the tide flows, within or to the northward of a straight line drawn across the entrance of Plymouth Sound, from Penlee Point on the west to the Shagstone on the east; and all the waters of the Sound and Hamoaze.

Limits of Plymouth Sound.

2.-Plymouth Sound shall be considered to be all that portion of the dockyard port of Plymouth lying to southward and eastward of a straight line joining Devil's Point and Wilderness Point, at the entrance of Hamoaze, southward of a straight line joining the heads of the two outermost piers at the entrance of Mill Bay, and southward and westward of a straight line joining Fisher's Nose and the outermost extremity of Mount Batten breakwater, at the entrance of Cattewater.

Limits of Harbour of Hamoaze.

3. The harbour of Hamoaze shall be deemed to be that portion of the dockyard port of Plymouth lying within a straight line drawn from Devil's Point to Wilderness Point.

General.

4.-Identical with Portsmouth Regulation 3, 1st schedule.

5.-Identical with Portsmouth Regulation 4, 1st schedule.

6.—If at any time the anchor of any merchant or other private vessel hooks any Government moorings, or any electric cables, or moorings of buoys, the master or other person having the charge or command of such vessel shall not proceed to unhook the same, but shall forthwith give notice thereof to the admiral superintendent or the Queen's harbour master, in order that aid may be given for clearing such moorings or cables without doing damage to the

same.

7.—Identical with Portsmouth Regulation 6, 1st schedule. 8.--Identical with Portsmouth Regulation 7, 1st schedule. 9.-Identical with Pembroke Regulation 4, 1st schedule. 10.-Identical with Pembroke Regulation 5, 1st schedule.

12.-The steam syren shall not be used within the limits of Hamoaze, except to prevent collision, or in case of fog. 15.-Identical with Portsmouth Regulation 14, 1st schedule. 16.-Identical with Portsmouth Regulation 15, 1st schedule.

Anchorage Regulations.

General.

17.-All merchant or other private vessels shall be subject to the direction of the Queen's harbour master.

Plymouth Sound.

18. The outer anchorage in Plymouth Sound within and near the breakwater shall be for the exclusive use of Her Majesty's ships and vessels of war.

19.-Anchorage in Plymouth Sound, within a space to be called the Merchant Vessels' Anchorage, is reserved specially for merchant and other private vessels, and is bounded by the following straight lines, namely:

To the southward by a line drawn from Ram's Cliff
Point towards the west :

To the northward by a line drawn from Mount Edg

cumbe House, through the Canteen on Drake's Island, to the eastern shore of Plymouth Sound: To the westward by a line drawn from the east end of Windsor Terrace, in the town of Plymouth, to the Smeaton's Tower on the Hoe, and continuing through the whitewashed diamond sea-mark on the rocks to the before-mentioned line drawn from Ram's Cliff Point, which anchorage is delineated on the chart annexed to this Order. 20.-Merchant or other private vessels may anchor only either in the Merchant Vessels' Anchorage, or in such positions out of the fairways, and other than those enumerated in Clause 21 of this schedule, as may from time to time be permitted by the Queen's harbour master.

21.-No merchant nor other private vessel shall be anchored, moored, or placed in either the eastern or western entrances to the Sound, nor in any part of the fairway on the west side of the Merchant Vessels' Anchorage, nor in the Smeaton Pass, nor in the Asia Pass eastward of a straight line drawn from the Melampus buoy to a position one cable south-west of the Asia buoy, nor in any part of the fairway from the Asia and Smeaton Passes to the entrance of Hamoaze, nor northward of Drake's Island within fifty fathoms of the centre of any moorings for the use of Her Majesty's ships and vessels, nor in Barn Pool.

Hamoaze.

22. No merchant nor other private vessel shall be anchored or moored in the fairway between the Government moorings in the harbour of Hamoaze so as to swing within seventy-five fathoms from the centre of any of those moorings, nor in such a position as to be liable to foul any of Her Majesty's ships at those moorings or elsewhere, nor in front nor abreast of any of Her Majesty's dockyards or arsenals, nor of Her Majesty's gun wharf, unless consigned or forced thereto by unavoidable accident.