519
Yokohama N. Breck-water Lighthouse.
Character of light--Pinch gas, occulting red light; light three (3) seconds,
eclipse two (2) seconds.
Power 100 candles.
Distance visible :----10 nautical miles in clear night.
December 3rd, 1915.
KATSUNDO MINOURA,
Minister of State for Communications.
NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 607.
CHINA SEA.
TIENTSIN DISTRICT.
Gulf of Pechili Taku Bar.
Taku Bar Outer Leading Marks-Characteristics of Lights Changed.
NOTICE is hereby given that the lights exhibited on the Taku Bar Outer Leading
Marks have now the following characteristics :-
On the front or low mark, a white light occulting every second, thus :
Light
Eclipse
03 second.
..0.7
On the rear or high mark, a white light occulting every 2 seconds, thus:-
Light..
Eclipse
1 second.
1
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector.
THE MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 8th December, 1915.
SANDAKAN,
BRITISH NORTH Borneo,
November 27th, 1915.
On the 23rd instant at 6.28 a.m., the S.S. Sandakan, drawing fourteen feet of water struck on a patch marked four fathoms in Latitude 7° 01′ 30′′ North, Longitude 117° 44' 00 East. Soundings on each side gave nineteen feet of water, and not twenty- four feet as charted, so that she probably hit a pinnacle. At the time the ship struck it was dead low spring tides, but she drifted off in two minutes and soundings taken again gave twenty fathoms.
G. F. C. WOOLLETT,
Deputy Harbour Master.