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FORTS and HARBOURS.

(Hore insert name of Port or Harbour).

Hong Kong Harbour.

1. At bar or entrance, what is:

(1) the minimum width?

(2) the minimum navigable depth, L.W.O.S.T.? (Note. If between the entrance and the deep sea there are burs 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.O.S.T.) should be given).

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1. Western entrance Sulphur Channel "

(1) 1,300 feel, (2) 9 fathoms.

None.

Eastern entrance

(1) 1,500 feet. (2) 13 fathoms.

Lye Mun Pass."'

2. In the approach channel from bar or entrance to

berthing accommodation, what is:

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

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

maximum

depth.

2. The Southern Fairway.

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

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

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

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

8. What is-

(1) the rise and fall of tides

(a) ordinary springs,

3.-1 (4) Rise 7.25 feet above L.W.O.S.T.

Fall to 100 ft.

(2) the

(b) ordinary neaps?

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

(b) Itise 6.00 It.

of ordinary

'neaps

above

Fall to 3.30 ft.

11

2

Rise of O.X.T.

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

4. What is the maximum available depth of 4. (a) 34 feet at Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and

water-

(a) at piors or wharves, L.W.O.S.T.?

(b) in the case of enclosed docks in the entrance locks, if any, and at deek quays, H.W.O.N.T.?

Godown Co.'s piers.

(b) Noue.

are

5. What

the re-pective lengths of pier, à, wharves, or (in the ense of enclosed norks) dock quays, where the nexximum depth of water, ne- ferred to in Question 4, oxists?

What percentage does the total of these lengthis bear to the total agrommodation at the port?

6. What are the dimensions (length, loaded draught, and beat at that draught) of the largest vessels which unler existing circumstances, can be—

(1) berthed

alongside (LA)O.S TJ?

HIN

pier or

wharf

(b) in the case of euclused docks—

(1) admitted direct to?

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(2) admitted though the er important dockor dawks,

vide (6) for length of piers. Excluding approxim ately 5,000) feet of berthage for river steamers, the whetage owned by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whari and Godown Co. represents about 63% of the total accommodation at the port.

The largest wharves are owned by the Hong Kong

and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., situated on the Mamlari, riz.:—

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The largest vessel which has creupied the abore Piers up to the present was the Empress of ben, hot 7.7 ; et, breadth 179 met

Britain.

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