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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH FEBRUARY, 1879.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
C. MAY, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th February, 1879..
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 2.]
BAY OF BENGAL, COAST OF TENASSERIM.
Sunken Danger in Mergui Archipelago.
Mr. E. C. RUSSELL, Commanding the British India Steam Navigation Company's Steam Vessel Medina, whilst on his voyage from Rangoon to Penang via the Coast ports, discovered a dangerous patch of rock and sand with rather less than 2 fathoms on it at low water spring tides; lying with-
Centre of Bound island
South extreme of Cantor's island.
Position (Admiralty Chart): Latitude 12° 15′ 0′′ N., longitude 98° 19′ 50′′ E.
"
.bearing W. § N.
S. W. 1 S.
[The bearings are Magnetic. Variation, 2° 30′ Easterly in 1878.]
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
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MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, Calcutta, 3rd January 1879.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty charts:-Murgui Archipelago, No. 216a; Bassein river to Pulo Penang, No, 230; Bay of Bengal, No. 706; Indian Ocean No. 748b; also Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 508; and Marine Survey Department Hydrographic Notice No. 8, page 6.
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 3.]
BAY OF BENGAL-GODAVERY DISTRICT COCANADA.
Revolving Light at Vakalapudi.
With reference to this Department Notice to Mariners, No. 27 of 8th December 1878, on the intended exhibition of a revolving light at Vakalapudi, telegraphic informotion has this day been received that the light was exhibited on the 15th instant, and that on the same night the small light, formerly shewn on the north side of the entrance to Cocanada river, was discontinued,
The light is a revolving white light on the fourth order, flashing at intervals of 20 seconds, elevated 80 feet above high water, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of 14 miles, in every direction seaward.
The light tower--a white column 76 feet high from base to vane-is situated to seaward of the cocoanut trees, about 2 cables from the shore, and 4.6 nautic miles N.. by E. 3 E. from the old light-house at Cocanada.
The illuminating apparatus is catadioptric, or by reflectors and lenses of the fourth order.
[Position: Latitude 17° 0′ 40′′ N., longitude 82° 16′ 30′′ E.]
This light is intended to lead vessels clear of the shoals to the north Point Godavari (Gordeware), when coming into the Cocanada anchorage from the southward and eastward,
In rounding the point, vessels should not come under 10 fathoms till the Vakalapudi light bears to the westward of W. N. W., and the fixed light on Hope Island bears S. by W., when the anchorage, which is in 5 fathoms, may be safely approached.
[The bearings are Magnetic: Variation 2° 0′ Easterly in 1879.]
By Direction of the Government of India,
R. C. CARRINGTON, Chief Civil Assistant, for A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 16th January, 1879.
This Notice affects the following Indian Marine Survey Charts, Coringa or Cocanada, bay, No. 113; Narsapul point to Palmyras point, No. 1172; Cape Comorin to Coconada, No. 156; and Admiralty Charts of Coringa or Cocanada bay, No 81; Coromandel Coast, No. 71a; Cape Comorin to Cocanada, No. 828; Cocanada to Bassein, No. 829; Bay of Bengal, western part No. 70a; Indian Ocean, northern portion, No. 7486; also Indian Marine Survey and Admiralty Light Lists; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. 1, page 464.
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.