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PORTS and HARBOURS.

(Here 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 sen 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.S.T.) should be given).

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1. Western entrance Sulphur Channel'

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

None.

Easlem entrance

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

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Lye Mun Pass."

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2. 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.

2. The Southern Fairway.

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

(1) Min. 1,880 feet. (2) Min. 4 fathoms.

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,

(2) the

(b) ordinary neaps?

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

of

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

Fall to 1.00 ft.

H

(b) Rise 6.00 ft.

ordinary

neaps

above

Fall to 3.30 ft.

1

11

Rise of O.N.T.

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

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4. What is the maximum available depth of

water-

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

Case of enclosed docks in the | entrance locks, if any, and at dock quays, H.W.O.N.T.?

5. What

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

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

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

(a) berthed

alongside (L.W.O.S.T.)?

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

Godown Co.'s piers.

5.

(b) None.

vide (6) 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.

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

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

pier Auy

ᎠᎨ wharf

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

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7221 do.

and 481

do.

505

do.

31 4th

do.

1!

682

do.

and 46

do.

800

do.

and GO

do.

(b) in the case of enclosed docks--

(1) admitted direct lo?

Or

(2) admitted through the entrance lock of any important dock or docks, 1.W.O.N.T. ?

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The largest vessel which has occupied the above Piers up to the present was the Einpress of Britain." Length 627.7 feet, breadth 77.9 feet

on a draft of 28 feet and the deepest draft vessel berthed was 32 6“.

There are no enclosed docks.

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