33 U.S.C. § 1204
Radiotelephone for exclusive use of master, person in charge, or pilot; frequency listening watch; portable radiotelephone equipment
The radiotelephone required by this chapter is for the exclusive use of the master or person in charge of the vessel, or the person designated by the master or person in charge to pilot or direct the movement of the vessel, who shall maintain a listening watch on the designated frequency. Nothing contained herein shall be interpreted as precluding the use of portable radiotelephone equipment to satisfy the requirements of this chapter.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1977–1982 · leading case: Complaint of B.F.T. No. Two Corp., 433 F. Supp. 854 (E.D. Pa. 1977).
Complaint of B.F.T. No. Two Corp., 433 F. Supp. 854 (E.D. Pa. 1977). “A speaker, placed in the galley, was close enough to that station so that someone stationed at the aft controls could hear any radio telephone transmissions.”
Allied Chem. Corp. v. Hess Tankship Co., 526 F. Supp. 1333 (E.D. La. 1979). “SOCRATES argues that it was not responsible for keeping the “listening” watch required by 33 U.S.C. § 1204 45 for the reason that it was not a towing vessel “navigating” within the meaning of 33 U.”
Ins. Co. of North Am. v. John J. Bordlee Contractors, Inc., 532 F. Supp. 774 (E.D. La. 1982). “We can only conclude that the PINA did not hear these calls as the result of the failure to maintain a proper listening watch as mandated by 33 U.S.C. § 1204 and we so hold. The failure to properly monitor *782 the radio is especially significant in this case in that it is…”
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