Western Australian Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

ESPERANCE PORT AUTHORITY REGULATIONS 1969 - REG 34

34 .         Steering sound signals day or night

                Where vessels are in sight of one another, a steamer under way, in taking any course authorized by the steering and sailing rules for preventing collisions, embodied in regulations made under The Merchant Shipping Act 1894 , shall indicate that course by the following signals on her whistle, siren, or horn, viz.: — 

            (a)         The short blast, meaning: “I am directing my course to starboard”;

            (b)         2 short blasts, meaning: “I am directing my course to port”;

            (c)         3 short blasts meaning: “My engines are going astern”;

            (d)         4 short blasts meaning: “My ship is out of control, keep clear”.