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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MAY, 1882.
MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 15.)
HINDOSTAN-WEST COAST.
BOMBAY HARBOUR.
Changes in Buoyage.
The Port Officer, Bombay, has notified that on the 1st May, 1882, several changes will be made in the buoyage of the harbour, and that in future the following system will be adopted-approximating, as near as practicable, to the system sanctioned by the Government of India, and published in this Department Notice to Mariners, No. 2, dated 13th January, 1882:-
1. Buoys with poles and triangles will mark the North end of shoals, &c.
2. Buoys with poles and globes will mark the South end of shoals, &c.
3. All Black buoys to be left on the starboard hand when entering the port.
4. All Red buoys carrying globes or triangles to be left on port hand when entering.
5. Buoy's coloured both Red and Black, with poles and triangles, can be passed on either port or starboard hand, and
to the North.
6. Buoys coloured both Red and Black, with poles and globes, can be passed on either port or starboard hand, and to
the South.
7. Red nun buoys will mark isolated rocks.
8. Mooring buoys will be coloured White.
9. Wreck buoys will be coloured Green.
10. The Quarantine Anchorage Buoy will be coloured Yellow, and will carry a black flag.
11. The Flagstaff Shoal buoy will remain of the same description and colour as at present.
Note. The buoy marking the Sunk Rock Shoal will now be removed.
By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, Calcutta, 11th April, 1882.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affects the following:-BRITISH ADMIRALTY Charts, Nos. 2,621, 737, and 2,736. INDIAN MARINE SURVEY Chart, No. 1257a. If this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
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MARINE BRANCH. MILITARY DEPARTMENT.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 16.)
CEYLON-EAST COAST.
BATTICALOA.
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Buoy Marking Surveyor's Rock,”
The Master Attendant, Colombo, has notified that from the 15th of March to the 31st October of each year, a buoy, painted red, will be placed 50 yards N.E. by N. of "Surveyor's Rock," in Batticaloa roadstead.
From the position of the buoy, Surveyor's Rock and Khandalla Rock will be in line with the white obelisk on shore.
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 13th April, 1882.
This Notice affects the following:-BRITISH ADMIRALTY Charts, Nos, 2031, and 828.
Also Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. 1, page 442.
INDIAN MARINE SURVEY Charts, Nos. 1256, and 15b.
If this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates,