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SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 530.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
Yangtze River-South Channel Entrance.
Kiutoan Light-vessel to be temporarily withdrawn and replaced
by the Light-vessel Tienching.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Kiutoan Light-vessel, moored in the South Channel Entrance to the Yangtze River, has been damaged by collision, and that on or about the 9th May, 1919, the Kiutoan Light-vessel will be temporarily withdrawn from her station and replaced by the Light-vessel Tienching.
The Tienching is a steel vessel, 83 feet in length, painted red. exhibited from a lantern carried by an iron trestle structure, is order, showing an occulting white light every 3 seconds, thus :--
Light,...
Eclipse,
The light, which is dioptric, of the sixth
0'3 second, 2.7 seconds.
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.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 6th May, 1919.
T. J. ELDRIDGE,
Coast Inspector.
NOTICE TO MARINERS NO. 677.
CHINA SEA.
CHEFOO DISTRICT.
Pechili Strait-Howki Island.
Responding Fog-Gun Signal-Distinguishing Interval to be Changed.
NOTICE is hereby given that on the 1st June, 1919, the distinguishing interval of the responding fog-gun signal at Howki Island, Pechili Strait, will be changed from an interval of 1 minute to an interval of 3 minutes.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
THE MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 5th May, 1919.
T. J. ELDRIDGE,
Coast Inspector.