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Rule 1: Application (a)

These rules shall apply to all vessels upon the high seas and in all waters connected therewith navigable by seagoing vessels.

Navigable by seagoing vessels

Rule 1: Application (b)

Nothing in these rules shall interfere with special rules made by an appropriate authority for roadsteads, harbours, rivers, lakes and inland waterways connected to the high seas and navigable by seagoing vessels. Such special rules shall conform as closely as possible to these rules.

Rule 1: Application (c)

Nothing in these rules shall interfere with any special rules made by the government of any state with respect to additional station or signal lights, shapes, or whistle signals for ships of war, or vessels proceeding under convey. Or with respect to additional station or signal lights or shapes for fishing vessels engaged in fishing as a fleet. These additional station or signal lights, shapes or signals, shall, so far as possible, be such that they cannot be mistaken for any other light, shape or signal authorised elsewhere under these rules.

Rule 2: Responsibility (a)

Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel or the owner, master or crew there of from any neglect to comply with these rules, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seaman, or by the special circumstances of the case

Rule 2: Responsibility (b)

In construing and complying with these rules, due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision and to any special circumstances, including the limitations of vessels involved, which may make a departure from these rules necessary to about immediate danger.