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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-1 between the entrance and the deep sen there are bus or shouls where a lesser depth occurs than the minunum indiented above, a list of such obstructions and of the depths over them (L.W.0 S.T.) – shouldd given).

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1. Westoru entrance

(1) 1.300 feet.

(2) 9 fathoins.

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Eastem entrance

[1] 1,300 feet.

(2) 13 fathoms,

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Sulphur Channel í

Lye Mun Pass.''

2. In the approach chamel from bar or entrance to

berthing accommodation, what is:-

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

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

depth.

2. The Southern Fairway.

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

11) Mm. 1,3H0 feet. (2) Mu, 4 fatbouns.

Max. 180 feet. Max. 8 fathorns.

Max. 1,380 feet. Max. tathons.

3. What is

(1) the rise and fall of tides

(a) ordinary springs,

(b) ordinary neups?

(2) the

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

of ordmary

neaps above

-1 (ut Rise 7.25 feet above LW.E.S.T.

Fall to 100 ft.

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(by Rise 0.00 11.

Fall to 3.80 ft.

Rise of O.X,T.

L.W.O.S.T. 5 ft.

4. (a) 34 feet at Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart and

Godown Co.'s piers.

4. What is the Maxim

water—

available depth of

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the

(b) None,

(a) at piers or wharves, L.W.O.S.T.? (b) in the case of enclosed docks

entrance locks, if any, and at dock quays. H.W.O.N.T.?

5. What

are the respective lengths oi piers. wharves, or (in the case of enclosed dorksi dock quays, where the maximum depth of water, re- ferred to in Question 4, exists?

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

5. ende (6) lor length of piers. Excluding approxim

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

6. What are the dunensions (length, loaded draught

and beam at that draught) of the largest vessels which under existing circunstances, can be—

(a) berthed

...... alongside (LW 0.8.T.)?

pier

(6) in the ease of enclosed docks-

(1) adiuitted direct to?

or

6. 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 it. in breadth.

wharf

No 2 No H No 4 No. 5

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7221 345

do.

and 484

do.

do.

and fo

do.

11

do.

and 46

dv.

do.

and 60

do.

+1

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

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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 770 feet

on a draft of 29 feet.

There are no enclosed docks.

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