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Range of Rays.-5 nautical miles.
Form.-A wooden post painted white with a light placed at the top.
Warning. As the light is worked by electricity, in case it should be extinguished a certain amount of time will be required to relight it.
MARINE BUREAU,
4th June, 1914.
Kwangtung Government-General.
PAKHOI DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS No. 4.
Removal of Acetylene Gas Buoy (unlighted) at Entrance to Harbour.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Acetylene Gas Buoy (unlighted), marking the Star- board side of the fairway between the fishing stakes off Tikok village, has been removed and replaced by the former Red Buoy surmounted by a Black spherical cage.
A HOLZ,
Harbour Master.
Approved :
J. M. MOORHEAD,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE,
PAKHOI, 5th June, 1914.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 415.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
Temporary Withdrawal of the “ Kiutoan" Gas Light-vessel.
NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 12th June the Kiutoan Gas Light-vesse will be taken in for repairs, and that the relieving Light-vessel Tienching will replace her The Tienching is a steel vessel, 83 feet in length, painted red. The light, which is exhibited. from a lantern carried by an iron trestle structure, is dioptric, of the sixth order, showing an occulting white light every 3 seconds, thus
Light...
Eclipse
...
0.3 seconds.
2.7 "7
The centre of the light is 35 feet above the water, and the light should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 10 nautical miles.
A black drum encircles the trestle below the lantern as a daymark.
During foggy or thick weather a gong will be beaten at short intervals.
If the Light-vessel is driven from her station, the usual light will not be shown, but a fixed red light will be exhibited from each end of the vessel during the night and a red flag hoisted by day.
T. J. ELDRIDGE,
Deputy Coast Inspector
(For Coast Inspector).
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 9th June, 1914.