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46,149 lettersLiverpool, March 23, 1875. Gentlemen: In compliance with your request, I forward you what my opinion is with respect to the additional fog-signals proposed by the board of trade. My…
Liverpool, March 18, 1875. Gentlemen: Having been shown a proposed code of signals for fog to be used by steam and sailing vessels, when under way and at anchor, I…
Liverpool, April 2, 1875. Gentlemen: In accordance with your request, I herewith give my opinion on the fog-signals proposed to be used on board of steamers. I think that steamers…
Liverpool, April 7, 1875. Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your note, inclosing a copy of fog-signals proposed by the board of trade, and herewith beg to hand you my…
Liverpool, March 27, 1875. Gentlemen: In reply to yours of the 19th ult., with regard to fog-signals, I have the honor to inclose the opinions of my senior officers, and…
Liverpool, March 22, 1875. Gentlemen: 1. Steamships, when under way during a fog, should blow the whistle twice in quick succession every three minutes; the first blast to call attention,…
Liverpool, April 3, 1875. Gentlemen: In reply to your note of the 1st instant, inclosing copy of signals proposed by board of trade to be used by steamers and sailing-vessels…
Liverpool, April 2, 1875. Gentlemen: In reply to your letter of the 18th March, asking for my opinion of the additional fog-signals proposed by the board of trade for the…
Liverpool, March 19, 1875. Gentlemen: Referring to your favor of the 18th instant, regarding fog-signals, I am of opinion that three minutes is too long an interval; two minutes is…
[Inclosure.] reports of captains and officers of white star line on sound-signals proposed by board of trade. Liverpool, March 22, 1875. Fog-signals. Dear Sirs: Referring to above as per your…
(M. 8292.) Messrs. Ismay, Imrie & Co. to Board of Trade. White Star Line, Liverpool, June 1, 1875. Sir: In compliance with your circular, M. 2626, we requested the captains…
[Inclosure.] Extract from notice to mariners. Treasury Department, Washington. [undated]. Every steamer, when under way, shall use a steam-whistle. Sailing-vessels, and all other craft propelled by sails, shall use a…
(M. 4905.) Messrs. James & Alaxander Allan to Board of Trade 70 Great Clyde Street, Glasgow,March 31, 1875. Sir: We have not been able sooner to reply to your letter…
[Inclosure.] National Steamship Company, (limited,) Drury Buildings, 21 Water Street, Liverpool, March 23, 1875. Sir: We, the undersigned masters and officers in the National Steamship Company’s service, having carefully considered…
(M. 4558.) Mr. W. Macalister to Board of Trade. National Steamship Company, (limited,) Drury Buildings, 21 Water Street, Liverpool, March 23, 1875. Sir: Referring to your letter of the 12th…
Inman Steamship Company, (limited,) Late Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company, Liverpool, March 15, 1875. Sir: In accordance with your desire, conveyed to me in your note regarding fog-signals,…
Liverpool, February 26, 1875. Sir: In reference to the letter from the board of trade regarding fog-signals, I think it is quite requisite for safety to go by sound signals…
Birkenhead Graving Dock, R. M. S. City of Montreal, March 1, 1875. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your memorandum, with inclosure of (copy) letter from board of trade,…
Water Street, Liverpool, March 2, 1875. Sir: I beg to offer the following as my answers and opinions on the questions continued in the letter from the secretary of the…
Liverpool, February 24, 1875. Dear Sir: Having read over copy of letter from the board of trade, dated 19th instant, I have the honor of submitting my opinion with regard…