Western Australian Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

FREMANTLE PORT AUTHORITY REGULATIONS 1971 - REG 53

53 .         Signals of distress

                When a vessel or seaplane on the water is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore, the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, — 

            (a)         a gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute;

            (b)         a continuous sounding with any fog-signalling apparatus;

            (c)         rockets or shells, throwing red stars fired one at a time at short intervals;

            (d)         a signal made by radiotelegraphy or by any other signalling method consisting of the group . . . --- . . . in the Morse Code;

            (e)         a signal sent by radiotelephony consisting of the spoken word “Mayday”;

            (f)         the International Code Signal of distress indicated by N.C.;

            (g)         a signal consisting of a square flag having above or below it a ball or anything resembling a ball;

            (h)         flames on the vessel (as from a burning tar barrel, oil barrel, etc);

                  (i)         a rocket parachute flare or a hand flare showing a red light;

            (j)         a smoke signal giving off a volume or orange-coloured smoke;

            (k)         slowly and repeatedly raising and lowering arms out-stretched to each side.