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Complete success means correct in three elements. Partial success means correct in only two elements. Partial failure means correct in only one element. Total failure means correct in no element.
The method of analysis is described in the 1918 Report.
Storm Warnings. Storm warnings, according to the Hong-kong Local and Non-Local Codes, are displayed at the Signal Hill, Kowloon. The following ports are warned by the non-local code :-- Sharp Peak, Swatow, Amoy, Santuao, Macao, Canton, Wuchow, Pakhoi, Hoihow, Phulien, Taihoku, Manila, Labuan, and Singapore.
The local day signals are repeated at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island, the Godown Company (Kowloon), Lyemun, and Lai-Chi-kok.
The local night signals are exhibited on the Observatory Wireless Mast and repeated on the tower of the Kowloon Railway Station, on H.M.S. Tamar, and at the Harbour Office.
For the benefit of native craft and passing ocean vessels a cone is exhibited at several outlying stations during the time that any of the local signals are displayed in the Harbour, to indicate that there is a depression somewhere in the China Sea, and that a typhoon warning is displayed in the Harbour.
In the following table are given the number of hours the local signals were hoisted in each of the years 1912–1919 :-
Year Red Signals. Number of hours hoisted Black Signals. Number of hours hoisted Bombs. Number of times fired 1912 151 164 1913 146 189 I 1914 146 178 1915 64 1916 70 1917 102 201 I 1918 33 36 1919 78 102 IThe figures in the above table include the number of hours that night signals, corresponding to the day signals, were hoisted.
Prior to July, 1917, the red signals indicated that the centre of the typhoon was believed to be more than 300 miles distant, and the black less than 300 miles; the returns for 1912-1916 are therefore not strictly comparable with those for 1917-1919. The latter suggest however that the use of the new local storm warning code has already saved the Colony a considerable amount of money. The loss incurred by the
* Three bombs fired at intervals of 10 seconds indicate that wind of typhoon force is anticipated.
F 11
Complete success means correct in three elements. Partial success means correct in only two elements. Partial failure means correct in only oue element. Total failure means correct in no element.
The method of analysis is described in the 1918 Report.
Storm Warnings. Storm warnings, according to the Hong- kong Local and Non-Local Codes, are displayed at the Signal Hill, Kowloon. The following ports are warned by the non-local code :-- Sharp Peak, Swatow, Amoy, Santuao, Macao, Canton, Wuchow, Pakhoi, Hoihow, Phulien, Taihoku, Manila, Labuan, and Singapore.
The local day signals are repeated at the Harbour Office, H.M.S. Tamar, Green Island, the Godown Company (Kowloon), Lyemun, and Lai-Chi-kok.
The local night signals are exhibited on the Observatory Wire- less Mast and repeated on the tower of the Kowloon Railway Station, on H.M.S. Tamar, and at the Harbour Office.
For the benefit of native craft and passing ocean vessels a cone is exhibited at several outlying stations during the time that any of the local signals are displayed in the Harbour, to indicate that there is a depression somewhere in the China Sea, and that a typhoon warning is displayed in the Harbour.
In the following table are given the number of hours the local signals were hoisted in each of the years 1912–1919 :-
Red Signals.
Black Signals.
Bombs. *
Year.
Number of hours hoisted.
Number of times fired,
1912
151
164
1913
146
189
I
1914
146
178
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1915
64
1916
70
1917
102
1918
1919
33 78
I 20
201
36
102
1
105
I
I
The figures in the above table include the number of hours that night signals, corresponding to the day signals, were hoisted.
Prior to July, 1917, the red signals indicated that the centre of the typhoon was believed to be more than 300 miles distant, and the black less than 300 miles; the returns for 1912-1916 are therefore not strictly comparable with those for 1917-1919. The latter suggest however that the use of the new local storm warning code has already saved the Colony a considerable amount of money. The loss incurred by the
* Three bombs fired at intervals of 10 seconds indicate that wind of typhoon force is anticipated.
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