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A vessel in Port shall maintain a quartermaster or watchman always on duty on deck, who shall be stationed in charge of the vessel's shore gangway and who shall attend to mooring ropes and lines of the vessel and shall clause their adjustment from time to time as necessary specially in the case of vessels moored at stream berths when the bow and stern mooring hawsers and ropes shall be attended to and adjusted as necessary at the time when any vessel at an adjacent stream berth is leaving In default, the master or owner of the vessel shall be liable for any damage resulting from such default.