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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JUNE, 1888.
Government of China.
NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 218.
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT.
Sunken Rock South of Tayung-Rugged Islands.
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THE following communication has been received from Commander W. USBORNE MOORE, R.N., Commanding H.B.M.'s Surveying Ship Rambler:-
"A dangerous rock has been discovered 5 cables south-east of the south coast of Tayung, Rugged Islands. The top has 2 feet over it at low water spring tide. From it the summit of Tayung bears N. 26° W., distant 83 cables; the rock off the south point of the island W. by N. of S.E. Horn, in line with the summit of Morrison Island, bears N. 69° E., distant 2.6 miles; and S.W. Horn bears N. 73 W., distant 6 miles. The position of this rock is generally indicated by chow water. It is named Huxley Rock.
"The highest and left-hand peak of Tripoint Island, just open of the south point of the S.E. bay of Tayung bearing N. 19° W. leads 3 cables east of the Huxley Rock.
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Bearings given are magnetic.
“(Signed)
W. USBORNE MOORE,
Commander, R.N.”
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
E. V. BRENAN, Acting Coast Inspector.
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 29th May 1888.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. No. 219.
CHINA SEA.
YANGTZE RIVER-KIUKIANG DISTRICT.
Christmas Island Beacon Light.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Christmas Island Beacon Light has been shifted 84 yards N. 36° W. from its last position, in consequence of the washing away of the river embankment..
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS,
COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,
SHANGHAI, 4th June 1888.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs,
E. V. BRENAN, Acting Coast Inspector.
The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Admiralty
Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, pp. 312 & 313.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 115 of the year 1888. RED SEA.
Position of Avocet Rock.
With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 190 of 1887, on reported sunken rocks northward of Jebel Zukur island :- Telegraphic information has been received from Lieutenant and Commander T. F. Pullen, H.M. Surveying vessel Stork, that he has found a small coral patch, with a least depth of 15 feet, situated in lat. 14° 22′ 8′′ N., long, 42° 41′ 39′′ E. This is undoubtedly the danger on which the steam vessels Avocet and Teddington struck during last year. It lies midway between the two best positions, which, from conflicting evidence, could be assigned to the respective vessels when they struck. The depths around the rock are 28 to 30 fathoms.
The Stork's search is the fourth that has been made by H.M. Ships, before this small danger has been re-discovered. Vessels passing down the Red sen should keep to the westward of this rock, and should remember that irregular lateral currents sometimes set across the sea; and if when on the homeward voyage they pass eastward of Abu Ail, care should be taken to steer to the westward aftor rounding that island, until Jebel Zükür summit bears about S.S.E. E.
There is little doubt that the loss of the Avocet was due to one of the lateral currents above mentioned, as not only was the steam vessel St. Oswald, in company with the docet, also to the eastward of the correct track, but other vessels passed on both sides of the two vessels while stopped to save the crew of the Avoccí.
(The bearing is Magnetle. Variation & Westerly in 1888.)
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 30th April 1888.
W. J. L. WHARTON,
Hydrographer.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts-Red sea. No, 2523; Red sea, sheet V., No. 8e; Jebel Teir to Perim island, No. 143; Also Red Sea Pilot, 1883. page 16.