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No. 171.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH DECEMBER, 1871.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Hydrographic Notices, and Notice to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th December, 1871.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
The information contained in this notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the chart when the ship is navigating the parts to which it refers.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE.
[ No. 9.] CHINA PILOT.
NOTICE NO. 19.
YANG-TSE-KIANG.
The following information relating to the navigation of the Yang-tse river, has been received from W. H. Medhurst, Esq., H.M. Consul at Shangbai, 1871.*
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1° 50' Westerly in 1871.]
LANG-SHAN CROSSING.-A new survey of the channel known as the Lang-shan crossing in the Yang-tse-kiang, has lately been made by Comeander Homer C. Blake, U.S.N., of the United States Ship Alaska; and a new arrangement of the ligh ship and buoys to meet the observed changes was made, in March 1871, in the Langsang crossing, and also in the Confucius
channel.
Lang-chan Light Vessel is moored in the fairway of the channel in 7 fathoms on the following bearings
Lang-shan pagoda
Plover point (extreme)
Fu-shan fort
Flat tree
N.N.E. E. S.E. by E. .S. ! W. .S.W. by W. W.
Waterman Buoy, Black, is moored on the eastern point of the Waterman or Middle bank with-
Lang-shan pagoda, bearing
Lang-shan light-vessel
Fu-shan fort
N.E. N. .S.S E. 1 E. .S.W. by S.
North Bank Buoy, Red, is moored on the south-west point of the Lang-shan flats with-
Plover point, bearing
Flat tree
Lang-shan light-vessel
Fu-shan fort
E. by S. S. s.w. ą s.
W. N.
.N. by W. W.
CONFUCIUS CHANNEL.-Theed buoy heretofore moored on the south-west side of the Acteon shoal will be painted with black and white stripes, and remaining in its present position will be called the Fairway buoy.
Centaur Buoy, Black, is moored on the eastern edge of the Centaur bank with—
Fairway buoy in line with Fork tree
Great bush
Plover point
.S. by E. & E.
•
...S. by W.
W. N.
¿ W.
S. E. .S.W. by W. W.
N.W. W.
Acteon Buoy, Red, is moored on the south-west end of the Acteon shoal with-
Fork tree, bearing
Great bush Fairway buoy
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 15th May 1871.
* See Admiralty Charts:-Yang-tse-kiang, Nos. 1480 and 2809; also, China Pilot, page 224.
The information contained in this notice is to be carefully considered, to be noted in the Sailing Directions, and compared with the chart
when the ship is navigating the parts to which it refers.
HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE. [No. 12. ]
CHINA SEA DIRECTORY, VOL. I. NOTICE NO. 8.
CARIMATA STRAIT.
The following account of a danger near the Melapies islands in Carimata strait, has been received from Captain M. D. Tallack of the Mercantile Marine.*
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1° 15′ Easterly in 1871.]
Tallach Shoal.-On the 2nd of March 1871, the British barque Mary Tatham, on her passage through the Carims's strait, struck on a shoal not shown on the charts; this shoal is steep-to, as a cast of 22 fathoms was obtained just before the vessel struck, and when aground there was a depth of 15 fathoms under the main chains. On examination of the danger M feet was the least water found, with 20 fathoms close to on all sides.
The following bearings were observed from the shoal, Soeka, the southern of the Melapies group of islands, N.W. N distant about 2 miles, Pyramid island S.W. ₫ S., and Zattak point half open of the north side of Meledan or Button island.
The position of this danger is therefore in lat. 1° 21′ S. and long. 109° 6' E.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 19th June 1871.
See Admiralty Charts:-Carimata strait, No. 2160; and Eastern Archipelago, No. 941 a; also China Sea Directory, Vol. II., page 168.