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NOTICES TO MARINERS.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 353.
CHINA SEA.
SWATOW DISTRICT.
CHILANG LIGHT-STATION.
NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 1st of June the temporary Sixth Order Light, referred to in Notice to Mariners No. 483, will be discontinued and will be replaced by a First Order Group Flashing Light, showing three white lightning flashes in quick succession every 20 seconds.
The Lighthouse is situated on the summit of Chilang Rock, and the Light, which is elevated 160 feet above the level of the sea, should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 19 nautical miles, except where obscured by land.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 13th May, 1911.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 354.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
STEEP ISLAND LIGHT-STATION.
Fog Siren to be established.
NOTICE is hereby given that early in June the existing Responding Fog Gun Signal will be discontinued. and will be replaced by a First Class Fog Siren, which will be sounded during foggy and thick weather.
The Siren, which will be elevated about 147 feet above sea level, will give a long and short blast of equal pitch in quick succession every 13 minutes, thus :—
Long blast.....
Silence,
Short blast, Silence,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 13th May, 1911.
6 seconds, 3
""
17
.78
and so on.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
CHINA SEA.
SINGAPORE ROAD.
DALHOUSIE Obelisk is now being removed to a site situated South 300 feet from its present position. It is no longer available as a clearing or anchoring mark and is screened by trees from seaward.
2. The fishing stakes in Singapore Road have been entirely removed.
This notice affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 1995 and 2404 China Sea Directory Vol. 1 1906 (5th Edition) pages 245-247.
MASTER ATTENDANT'S OFFICE,
SINGAPORE, 15th May, 1911.
C. A. RADCLIFFE, Commander, R.N.,
Master Attendant, S.S.