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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH MAY, 1885.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 207. The following Hydrographic Notices are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th May, 1885.
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secret...
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
Notice is hereby given that the Master of the British S.S. Esmeralda reports that on the 30th April last, at 2 A.M.. the ship struck on a recf off the Coast of Luzon.
The Esmeralda was drawing 11 feet 6 inches forward, and 13 feet 9 inches aft at the time, and her position was abou 3 miles from the land, with Mount Yba bearing N. 829 E. (magnetic).
Soundings taken round the shir gave depths varying from 10 feet to 18 feet, dropping suddenly on to 10 fathom- about a mile to the Southward of the position given above.
The Admiralty Chart 2661a shows a patch, with 4 fathoms, on or about the spot where the Esmeralda struck.
R. MURRAY RUMSEY, Ret. Com. R.N., Acting Harbour Master, &c.
Government of Queensland.
NOTICE TO
MARINERS.
No. 9 of 1885.
LIGHTSHIP, NORMAN BAR.
Notice is hereby given that a Lightship, painted red and showing a white Dioptric Light of the 5th order, is now placed in 12 feet, at low water, 1 cable N.W. by N. from the position of the Fairway Buoy, off the Bar of the Norman River.
The Light is carried at an elevation of 34 feet above the water, and is visible from a distance of 11 miles. When vessels require to cross the Bar the depth is shown by the following Code of Signals made from the yard-arms of the Lightship:-
Depth of Water.
By Day.
By Night.
in.
Flag at yard-arm
Ball at each yard-arm
10
10
11
12
ft.
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""
""
dipped
Flag at each yard-arm
""
dipped
Two flags at yard-arm
Ball at yard-arm
dipped
""
dipped
""
17
dipped
Two balls at yard-arm
>>
dipped
11.
Cone at yard-arm
""
dipped
Cone at each yard-arm
12
6
99
dipped
13
0
Two cones at yard-arm
13
6
39
""
dipped
14
.0
14
6
15
0
Cone at one yard-arm, ball at other; ball dipped
Cone at one yard-arm, ball at other
Cone at one yard-arm, ball at other; cone dipped
White light. Red light. Green light. White over red. Red over white. Green over white.
White over green.
Red over green.
Green over red.
Red at one yard-arm, white at the other. Green at one yard-arm, white at the other. Green at one yard-arm, red at the other. Red at each yard-arm.
Green at each yard-arın.
White at each yard-arm.
Two white vertical.
Two red vertical.
Two green vertical.
Department of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 25th March, 1885.
Two white vertical at one yard-arm and one red at the
other.
Two red vertical at one yard-arm and one white at the
other.
Two green vertical at one yard-arm and one white'
the other.
G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.