The lights of sailing ships

2. The signals intended to indicate the course of a ship in fog ; o. Regulations relating to warships navigating without lights ; •1. Navigation in the neighbourhood ot warships ;

Ô. Regulations relating to submarines ;

0. The adaptation of lights and sound signals to the dimensions and speed of modern ships.

The administrations concerned should continue to take steps to ensure that the power of ships' lights and sound signals comjily fully with the requirements of the International Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea.

In view of the diversity of practice and opinion in the different countries, the question of the adoption of a uniform system of helm orders should be considered at the same time as the revision of the Regulations for preventing Collisions at Sea.

In districts where fog is fi-equent, every lightship on an important outside station should be provided with a submarine bell.

Every ship defined in Article 2 of this Convention uf large size should be provided with search- lights for use in rescue work and other urgent cases.

Binoculars should not be provided for look-out men,

The tests in use for visual acuity and colour vision for officers and look-out men should be made general.

The question of rendering harbour and tide signals uniform should be considered by the different Governments.

The Governments of the High Contracting Parties should consider the question of approaching the companies and owners concerned with a view to securing that ships crossing tlie North Atlantic sliall not pass over the Newfoundland Banks during the fishing season.

The international services provided for in Articles 6 and 7 of the Convention should, if possible, be established in time for the seasons of 1914 and 1915.

The International lioad Line Conference, which the British Government proposes to convene as soon as the necessary preliminary work is completed, should also deal, if possible, with timber deck loads.

As regards Radiotelegraphy :

The Governments of the Contracting ^tates should make the necessary representation to the International Meteorological Committee that it should consider the increase of the number of stations able to send out weather messages to ships at sea and the best distribution of these stations.

In support of the recommendations of the International Time Conference held at Paris in 1912 :

1. A radiotelegraph meteorology service should be established conformably to the provisions of Article XL Y. of the Regulations appended to the London Radiotelegraph Convention.

2. Foreign-going sailing and steam ships should be provided with an apparatus for the reception of time and weather signals.

The attention of the Governments of the Contracting States should be drawn to the desirability of making every effort to reduce the delays allowed by Article 38 of this Convention for the installation of radiotelegraph apparatus and the provision and training ot operators for ships in the First and Second Classes, as well as those provided in the same article for the installation of the said apparatus, the provision and training of operators and the establishment of a continuous watch on ships of the Second and Third Classes.

As regards Life Saving Appliances :

The attention of each of the Governments of the Contracting States should be drawn to the desirability of applying at the earliest possible moment the provisions of the Convention relating to the handling of boats and boat-drills and fire-drills, as well as the provisions for preventing, disccA'ering and extinguishing fire.

In witness wliereof the Plenipotentiaries have decided that the above recommendations should be annexed to the Final Protocol in order that they may have all reasonable authority.

VON KOERNER

SEELIGER.

SCHÛTT.

RIESS.

PAGEL.

SCHRADER

BEHM.

G. FRANCKENSTEIN.

SCHRECKENTHAL.

DIJNAY.

E. A. PIERRARD.

CH. LE JEUNE

LOUIS FRANCK

EMIL KROGH.