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The vessels referred to in this Article shall not be obliged to carry the lights prescribed by Article 4 (a) and Article 11, last paragraph.

Pilot vessels, when engaged on their station on pilotage duty, shall not show the lights required for other vessels, but shall carry a white light at the masthead, visible all round the horizon, and shall also exhibit a flare-up light or flare-up lights at short intervals, which shall never exceed 15 minutes.

On the near approach of or to other vessels they shall have their side-lights lighted, ready for use, and shall flash or show them at short intervals, to indicate the direction in which they are heading; but the green light shall not be shown on the port side, nor the red light on the starboard side.

A pilot vessel of such a class as to be obliged to go alongside of a vessel to put a pilot on board, may show the white light instead of carrying it at the masthead, and may, instead of the coloured lights above mentioned, have at hand, ready for use, a lantern with a green glass on the one side and a red glass on the other, to be used as prescribed above.

Pilot vessels, when not engaged on their station on pilotage duty, shall carry lights similar to those of other vessels of their tonnage.

This Article, which will deal with the regulations affecting fishing-boats, will be the subject of a future Order in Council. For the present, the corresponding Article (Art. 10) of the old rules remains in force. It applies only to fishing vessels and boats when in the sea, off the coast of Europe lying north of Cape Finisterre. The following is a summary of its regulations:—

(a) All fishing-boats of 20 tons net registered tonnage or upwards, when under way, and when not required by the following regulations in this Article to carry and show the lights therein named, shall carry and show the same lights as other vessels under way.