386 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT
E, 25TH AUGUST, 1877.
No. 187.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th August, 1877.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 12.)
HINDOSTAN-WEST COAST.
Position of Cochin Light-house, etc.
Notice is hereby given that the light exhibited at Cochin is incorrectly placed on the present Admiralty Charts. The light-house is situated on a raised mound which formed a bastion of the old fort, and bears south-west from the Flagstaff and Cochin Church, distant 5.4 cables from the former, and 2.8 cables from the latter.
The shallow water at the entrance to this river has shifted about a cable to the E.S.E.; the mark now for leading vessels over the bar is the central or largest of the three churches at Ernakolum in line with Builder's (Vypeen) point.
The buoys marking the shoal water have been moved; the north buoy 2 cables, and the south buoy nearly 3 cables in the same direction.
Note.-During the south-west monsoon these buoys are removed, as vessels anchor at Narrakel about 5 miles to the northward of Cochin, at which place a small light is exhibited from the flagstaff.
Position of light-house-lat. 9° 57′ 47′′ N., long. 76° 13′ 45′′ E.
By Direction of the Government of India,
MA NE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 14th July 1877.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
This Notice affets the following Admiralty Charts:-Cochin river, No. 65; India West coast, Sheet 11, No. 749, and Sheet 3, Cochin to cape Comoria, No. 2738: also, Admiralty West coast of Ilindostan Pilot, pag 81; the List of Lights in South Africa, East Indies, &c., 1877, page 12, and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 408.
J on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be ins. to which it relates.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
INDIA-HINDOSTAN-
(No. 13.)
EST COAST-BOMBAY HARBOUR.
1. Position of Raleigh Rock.
The following information relative to a rock in Bombay harbour, on which Her Majesty's Ship Raleigh recently touched, has been furnished by Captain H. W. Brent, Her Majesty's Flagship Undaunted:—
This rock (Raleigh rock) rises abruptly from the general muddy bed of the harbour; it is about 160 feet long E. S. E. and W. N. W., and 90 feet in width; the shoalest part has 224 feet over it at low water ordinary spring tides, but only 20₫ feet at extraordinary low springs. The general level near the rock has a depth of 25 feet over it at the lowest tides.
A conical buoy, painted red, has been placed on the eastern edge of the rock, with--
Scotch Church Steeple in line with Ritchie Steward's cotton press chimney (resembling a monument), bearing Dolphin beacon
Oyster rock battery (Colaba observatory just open to the
northward)..
It is proposed to remove this rock by blasting.
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2. Additional Beacons.
Also that the following additional beacons have been erected :-
...N. by W. 1 W.
N. N. W. I W. 44 cables.
.W. S. W. distant 7 cables.
A circular stone beacon, painted red and white, on the north and south extremes of Colaba reef, westward of Dolphin beacon.
A circular stone beacon, painted red and white, on the shoalest part of Ooran patch.
A large circular white stone tower on the summit of Thull Knob.
[The bearings are Magnetic: Variation 1° Fusterly in 1877.j
By Direction of the Government of India,
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 20th July 1877.
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of Índia.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Bombay harbour, No. 2621: also, the Admiralty West Coast of Hindostan Pilot, pages 129, 130 and 136, and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 379.
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.