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NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 608.
CHINA SEA.
Yangtze River: Shanghai District.
North Channel Entrance--Tsungming Crossing.
ALTERATION IN BUOYAGE.
REFERRING to Special Notice to Mariners No. 452, notice is hereby given that the following changes in the buoyage of the Tsungming Crossing have been made.
The East Entrance Buoy is now a red and black horizontally striped Buoy, gas- lighted. It is moored in 45 feet of water in the fairway at the northern entrance to the Crossing. From the Buoy, North-west Beacon bears N. 47° W., distant 3.84 miles.
The First Crossing Buoy has been discontinued.
The Second Crossing Buoy, which will hereafter be known as the Crossing Buoy, is a red Buoy, gas-lighted. It is moored in 12 feet of water on the western side of the Crossing. From the Buoy, North-west Beacon bears N. 21° W., distant 404 miles.
The West Spit Buoy is now moored in 32 feet of water off the end of the spit on the eastern side of the southern entrance to the Crossing, its characteristics remaining unchanged. From the Buoy, Quarantine Beacon bears S. 54° E., distant 3'91 miles.
All bearings given are magnetic, and depths are those of low water of spring tides.
caution.
Caution.
The Crossing is in a state of rapid change and should be navigated with extreme
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
THE MARITIME Customs,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 16th December, 1915.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Coast Inspector,
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 123.
FOOCHOW DISTRICT.
NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 17th instant the Black Buoy, marking the port side of the channel for vessels passing up river, will be shifted S. 20° W. distance 0.3 cables and the Red Buoy, at present marking the Southern part of the Niuta Rock, will be shifted N. 80° 1⁄2 E. distance 0'45 cables.
W. O. LLOYOD,
Acting Harbour Master.
Approved:
C. H. BREWITT-TAYLOR,
Commissioner of Customs.
CUSTOM HOUSE,
FOOCHOW, 15th December, 1915.