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... River P. E. Island , we discovered about a half mile from our vessel a large school of mackerel , I took my largest boat and largest seine , the seine being two hundred and thirty fathoms long and twenty five fathoms deep , and went for ...
... River P. E. Island , we discovered about a half mile from our vessel a large school of mackerel , I took my largest boat and largest seine , the seine being two hundred and thirty fathoms long and twenty five fathoms deep , and went for ...
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... River , Prince Edward Island , about three o'clock in the afternoon we saw a large school of mackerel about half a mile from the vessel well outside of the three mile limit , this we are positive of . More so after the so called meas ...
... River , Prince Edward Island , about three o'clock in the afternoon we saw a large school of mackerel about half a mile from the vessel well outside of the three mile limit , this we are positive of . More so after the so called meas ...
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... River , Prince Edward Island , about three and a half miles , when we saw mackerel outside of us about a mile . I took my two largest seines in the boats ( the seines being two hundred and twenty fathoms long and twenty fathoms deep ...
... River , Prince Edward Island , about three and a half miles , when we saw mackerel outside of us about a mile . I took my two largest seines in the boats ( the seines being two hundred and twenty fathoms long and twenty fathoms deep ...
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... mackerel , that on the 24th day of July , 1887 , being off West River , Prince Edward Island , about . four miles or more , we saw mackerel outside 54 The Argonaut and the Col. Jonas H. French . Affidavit of George McLean.
... mackerel , that on the 24th day of July , 1887 , being off West River , Prince Edward Island , about . four miles or more , we saw mackerel outside 54 The Argonaut and the Col. Jonas H. French . Affidavit of George McLean.
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... River , P. E. Island , and our vessel being over four miles from the shore as estimated by us , the I went in the seine boat mackerel showed up outside of us . and helped secure one haul of mackerel , when we left one boat with the ...
... River , P. E. Island , and our vessel being over four miles from the shore as estimated by us , the I went in the seine boat mackerel showed up outside of us . and helped secure one haul of mackerel , when we left one boat with the ...
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A. G. Duncan Affidavit Alpena County American waters Annex Answer Appendix Article boat boundary line boxes of nets BRITISH CLAIMS ARBITRATION Buoy Canada Canadian Canadian authorities Canadian waters Canadienne Captain Whitten chart Collector of Customs Commission Commissioners Consul course Court crew cross Cutter Critic damage David Lincoln day of June Deponent further says depose and say Deputy Collector Detached distance duly sworn duty evidence Exhibit filed fishing in Canadian George Whitten Gloucester helm Isabelle Lincoln James G Jonas H July Lake Huron loss mackerel mackerel fishery Majesty's Government master navigation Notary Public Number owner place of seizure Port of Alpena Prince Edward Island R. T. Roy reason river rule Schooner Argonaut seized seizure ship shore South Bay Mouth Subscribed and sworn testimony thence three miles tide Treaty of 1818 Treaty of Ghent tug R. T. Roy U. S. Reports United States Memorial William Dobson Yantic Yes sir
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Page 14 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 39 - When two steam- vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 16 - On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Page 16 - ... (c.) On the port side, a red light, so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass; so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam...
Page 17 - Risk of collision can, when circumstances permit, be ascertained by carefully watching the compass bearing of an approaching vessel. If the bearing does not appreciably change, such risk should be deemed to exist.
Page 43 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel or the owner or master or crew thereof from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, 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 16 - A steam vessel when under way shall carry — -(a) On or in front of the foremast, or if a vessel without a foremast, then in the fore...
Page 40 - Every vessel which is directed by these rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other.
Page 16 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of sucli a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. (c) On the...
Page 18 - ... with red,) passing across the river at the head of St. Joseph's Island, and at the foot of the Neebish Rapids, which line denotes the termination of the boundary directed to be run by the 6th article of the Treaty of Ghent.