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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH FEBRUARY, 1874.
BOARD OF TRADE.
INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS.
ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS.
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The following Alterations and Additions in the International Code of Signals are printed for the information of the Governments of the Countries that have adopted and translated the Signal Book, in order that the corrections may be noted for insertion in the next Editions they may respectively publish.
The following additional Signals should be placed before the Signal H.B., Section I. Part I., containing Danger or Distress Signals.
DISTRESS AND PILOT SIGNALS.
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
In the daytime. The following signals, numbered 1, 2, and 3, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals of distress in the daytime:-
1. A gun. fired at intervals of about a minute;
2. The International Code signal of distress indicated by N C;
3. The distant signal, consisting of a square flag having either above or below it a ball, or any-
thing resembling a ball.
At night. The following signals, numbered 1, 2, 3, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals of distress at night:---
1. A gun fired at intervals of about a minute;
2. Flames on the ship (as from a burning tar barrel, oil barrel, &c.);
3. Rockets or shells, of any colour or description, fired one at a time, at short intervals.
SIGNALS TO BE MADE BY SHIPS WANTING A PILOT.
In the daytime. The following signals, numbered 1 and 2, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals for a pilot in the day time, viz. :—-
1. To be hoisted at the fore, the Jack or other national colour usually worn by merchant ships,
having round it a white border, one fifth of the breadth of the flag; or
2. The International Code pilotage signal indicated by P T.
At night. The following signals, numbered 1 and 2, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals for a pilot at night, viz. :-
1. The pyrotechnic light commonly known as a blue light every fifteen minutes; or,
2. A bright white light, flashed or shown at short or frequent intervals just above the bulwarks,
for about a minute at a time.
N.B. The use of the above Distress and Pilot Signals have been made compulsory in England by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873.
A copy of the Act is attached to this Circular.
BTHC
The following Geographical Signals have been added.
Lequeitio (Lighthouse)
BTID Castrourdiales (Lighthouse)
BTHF
BTHG
BTHJ
San Vicente de la Barquera
Avilés (Lighthouse)
Estaca de Vares (Lighthouse)
BTHK Ria de Muros (Lighthouse)..
BTHL
Huelva
BTHM Marbella (Lighthouse).
BTHIN Velez-Málaga (Lighthouse)
Spain.
San Bernardino, Strait of
Masbate, Island of
Sibuyan
Burias
BTJF
BTJG
Santa Isabel (Fernando Po) Corisco
Guinea.
Gulf of
BTJH
BTJK
BTJL
BTJM
>>
BTJN
Panay
27
BTJP
Calamianes 15
BTJQ
Cebú
"
BTJR
Negros
99
BTHP Torrevieja (Lighthouse)
BTHQ
BTHR Mataró
BTJV
RTHS
Alcudia
BTHV
Soller (Lighthouse)
Islands.
BTHW St. Cruz de Tenerife (Lighthouse)
Manzanillo....
BTJC
Point of Teide
Canaries.
BTKF Mayaqüez
BTJD
Las Palmas
F
Antilles.
Philippine Islands.
BTJS Leite
Maisi, Point of (Lighthouse)
Belearic BTJW Nipe, Port of
BTKC Pinos, Island of..
BTKD
BTKG Aguadilla .
N.B.-To correct Geographical Index.
ADDITIONAL SIGNAL STATIONS.
DENMARK.
A Signal Station for the use of ships at sea, in connexion with the Telegraph Station has been opened at Hirtshals on the north-west coast of Jutland.