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PORTS and HARBOURS.

(Here insert name of Port or Harbour).

Hong Kong Harbour.

I. At bar or entrance, what is:-

(1) the minimum width?

(2) the minimum navigable depth, L.W.0.8.T.? (Note. If between the entrance and the deep ses there are bars or shoals where a lesser depth occurs than the minimum indicated above, a list of such obstructions and of the depths over them (L.W.0.8.T.) should be given).

1. Western entrance

(1) 1,500 feet. (2) 9 fathoms.

None.

Eastern entrance

(1) 1,500 feet. (2) 18 fathoma.

I

Sulphur Channel.”

Lye Mun PaB.**

1. In the approach channel from bar or entrance to

berthing accommodation, what is:

(1) the minimum and maximum width? (2) the

minimum and maximum L.W.O.S.T.?

depth,

1. The Southern Fairway.

(1) Min. 1,080 feet. (2) Min. 4 fathoms. The Central Fairway.

(1) Min. 1,380 feet. (2) Min. 4 fathoms.

Max. 1,800 feet. Max. 8 fathoms.

Max. 1,380 feet. Max. 7 fathoms.

1. What is

(1) the rise and fall of tides

3.–1 (a) Rise 7.25 feet above L.W.O.S.T.

Fall to 1.00 ft.

(a) ordinary springs,

(b) ordinary neaps?

(b) Rise 8.00 ft.

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(2) the

rise of ordinary L.W.O.S.T.?

neaps

above

Fall to 8.30 ft.

H

2

Rise of O.N.T.

L.W.O.8.T. 6 ft.

1. What is the maximum available depth of

water-

(a) at piers or wharves, L.W.0.8.T.? (b) in the case of enclose:] docks in the entrance locks, if any, and at dock quays, H.W.O.N.T.?

1. (a) 35 feet at Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and

Godown Co.'s piers.

(b) None.

1. What

are the respective lengths of piers, wharves, or (in the case of enclosed docks) dock quays, where the maximum depth of water, ro- ferred to in Question 4, exists?

What percentage does the total of these lengths bear to the total accommodation at the port?

1. What are the dimensions (length, loaded draught, and beam at that draught) of the largest vessels which under existing circumstances, can be-

(a) berthed alongside any pier OF whart

(L.W.O.S.T.)? (b) in the case of enclosed docks-

(1) admitted direct to?

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(2) admitted through the entrance lock of any important dock or docka, H.W.O.N.T.?

1. vide (8) for length of piers. Excluding approxim

ately 5,000 feet of berthage for river steamers, the wharfage owned by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. represents about 63% of the total accommodation at the port.

1. The largest wharves are owned by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., situated on the Mainland, viz.:

No. 1 Pier 750 ft. in length and 81 ft. in breadth.

No. 2 No. 8 No. 4 No. 5

F

7221

do.

and 484

do.

600

do.

and 50

do.

662

do.

and 46

do.

800

do.

und 60

do.

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The largest vessel which has occupied the above Piers up to the present was the Empress of Britain. Length 627.7 feet, breadth 77.9 feet on a draft of 28 feet and the deepest draft vessel berthed was 32'8”.

There are no enclosed docka.

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