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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 sea 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 giveo).

1. Western entrance

(1) 1,500 feet.

(2) 9 fathoms.

None.

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Sulphur Channel

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Eastern entrance Lye Mun Pass."'

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

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

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

Max. 1,880 feet. Max. 7 fathoms,

a. What is—

(1) the rise and fall of tides

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

Fall to 100 ft. It

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(a) ordinary springs,

(2) the

(b) ordinary neups?

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

(b) Risc 6.00 ft.

+

of ordinary

neaps

above

Fall to 3.30 IL.

"

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2

Rise of O.N.T.

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

#

1. What is the maximum available depth of 4. (u) 35 feet at Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and

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.?

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, re- 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, toaded draught, and beam at that draught) of the largest vessels which under existing circumstances, cau be—

(a) berthed alongside

(L.W.0.S.T.)?

any

or pier

whart

(b) in the case of enclosed docks—

(1) admitted direct to?

or

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

5.

vide (6) for length of piers. Excluding approxim- ately 3,000 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. Tho largest wharves are owned by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., situated on the Mainland, miz.:

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and 48

do.

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and 50

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662

do.

and 16

do.

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do

and 60

do

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No. 1 Pier 750 ft. in length and 81 ft. in breadth. No. 2 7224 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 The largest vossel which has occupied the above Piers up to the present was the Empress of Britain." Length 627.7 feet, breuih 77.0} feet on a draft of 28 feet and the deepest draft vessel bertbed was 326′′.

There are no enclosed docks.

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