Safety of Life at Sea: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communications and Power of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session on H.R. 7954, a Bill to Amend the Communications Act of 1934 to Conform to the Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, London (1960) May 19, 1965 |
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1934 is amended 300 gross tons amend the Communications amended to read Anticosti Island authorized traffic BARTLEY Beaufort scale BROYHILL cargo ships certificate Chairman Communications Act compulsory radio requirements CONG CONGK CONGRES THE LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY continuous watch direction finding apparatus DOUGLAS MACARTHUR II FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION harbor or port hundred gross tons International Convention international voyage language leave any harbor leave or attempt legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIONEL VAN DEERLIN nautical miles nuclear ships open sea OREN HARRIS paragraph passenger ships PHILLIPS Present subsections proposal amends section provisions purposes of distress Pursuant radio direction finding radio officer radio regulations annexed radiotelegraph auto alarm radiotelegraph station radiotelephone station RARY OF CONGRESS read as follows reserve installation ROGERS of Texas Safety Convention safety purposes designate section 351 ship is registered six hundred gross SOLAS station complying three hundred gross tons and upward vessels YOUNGER
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Page 3 - Administration, if it considers that the sheltered nature and conditions of the voyage are such as to render the application of the full requirements of...
Page 2 - Operator" on a ship of the United States means, for the purpose of parts II and III of title III of this Act a person holding a radio operator's license of the proper class as prescribed and issued by the Commission. (B) "Operator...
Page 2 - ... same treaty, convention, or agreement prescribing the requirements for such apparatus. Nothing in this Act or in any other provision of law shall be construed to require the recognition of a radiotelegraph auto alarm as complying with Part II of Title III of this Act...
Page 9 - The Bureau of the Budget advises that from the standpoint of the administration's program there is no objection to the submission of this report. Sincerely yours, DOUGLAS MACARTHUR II, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations. (For the Secretary of State) . COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, Washington, DC, May 26, 1965.
Page 5 - If batteries are provided they shall have sufficient capacity to operate the transmitter and receiver for at least six hours continuously under normal working conditions. In new installations an emergency source of energy shall be provided in the upper part of the ship unless the main source of energy is so situated.
Page 3 - ... ships for the time being navigating the Great Lakes of North America and their connecting and tributary waters as far east as the lower exit of St. Lambert Lock at Montreal in the Province of Quebec, Canada; (d) naval ships and ships for the time being used as naval auxiliaries.
Page 5 - States equipped with radio transmitting apparatus, on meeting with dangerous ice, a dangerous derelict, a tropical storm, or any other direct danger to navigation, shall cause to be transmitted all pertinent information relating thereto, to ships in the vicinity and to the appropriate authorities...
Page 5 - SEC. 359. (a) Each vessel of the United States to which the safety convention applies shall comply with the radio and communication provisions of said convention at all times while the vessel is in use, in addition to all other requirements of law, and have on board an appropriate certificate as prescribed by the safety convention.
Page 3 - ... previous service in the aggregate as a qualified operator in a station on board a ship or ships of the United States.
Page 3 - States required by this part to be fitted with a radio installation. (e) On all ships of the United States fitted with an auto-alarm, said apparatus shall be in operation at all times while the ship is being navigated outside of a harbor or port when the operator is not on watch.