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No. 80.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST MAY, 1875.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, are published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th April, 1875.
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 Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
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CHINA-EAST COAST.
Reported Danger off Breaker Point.
Information has been received from the Hongkong Government of the existence of a danger three miles to the south- west of Breaker point, on which the British steam-vessel Ningpo struck when on her voyage from Hongkong to Shanghai, on the 16th November 1874.
The master of the Ningpo could not ascertain whether the danger the vessel struck on was a rock or a wreck, and the position he assigns to it :-namely, Flat island bearing North, distant 3 miles, and at the same time Breaker point bearing N.E. N., places the danger in about lat. 22° 51′ 20′′ N., long. 116° 26' E., and one and a half miles west of the position assigned to the danger on which the British steam-ship Ulysses struck in 1872.
The depth of water alongside at the time the Ningpo struck was 11 fathoms.
NOTE. As these reported dangers are uncertain in their position, mariners are cautioned accordingly.
[All Bearings are Magnetic. No variation in 1875.]
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 6th March 1875.
FREDK. J. EVANS, Hydrographer.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Chelang point to Chanan bay, No. 1963; Formosa island and straits, No. 1968; Hongkong to Liantung, No. 1262; and China Sea, No. 2661 b: Also, The China Sea Directory, Vol. III., page 143.
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 Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
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CHINA
EAST COAST.
(1.)
Fixed Light on Shantung Promontory.
With reference to Notice to Mariners, No. 145, dated 21st October 1874, on the intended exhibition of a light on Shantung promontory
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The Engineer Office at Shanghai has given further Notice that the light is now exhibited.
The light is a fixed light, showing white from between the bearings of S.E. by E. E. to S.S.E. E., red from S.S.E. 2 E. to S. by E. E., white from S. by E. E. through west and north to N.N.E., and red from N.N.E. to N.E. E. The light is obscured by hill peaks between the bearings of S.E. by E. 3 E. and S. by E. E.; and also by Alceste island between the bearings of S.S.E. and S.S.E. E. It is elevated 200 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear weather the white light should be seen from a distance of 20 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by lenses, of the first order.
The tower, 64 feet high, is circular, built of stone and painted white. Approximate position, lat. 37° 24′ N., long, 1299 Also, with reference to the same Notice :--The temporary light mentioned therein, has been discontinued.
42' E.
(2) Discontinuance of the Middle Dog Island Beacon.
Also, that the Beacon on Middle Dog island, off the River Min, has been blown down and will not be replaced.
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 4° Westerly in 1875.]
By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 8th March 1875.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-
FREDк J. EVANS,
Hydrographer.
(1) Pe-chili and Liau-tung gulfs, No. 1256; Nipon, Kiusiu, and part of Korea, No. 2347; Hongkong to Liau-tung, No. 1262; and Kamchatka to Chusan islands, No. 2459: Also Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, East Indies, China, &c., Nos. 181 and 181a; and China Sca Directory, Vol. III., page 467.
(2) River Min, No. 2400; and Matheson port to Ragged point, No. 1761: Also, China Sea Directory, Vol. III., page 196.