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SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 363.

CHINA SEA.

SHANGHAI DISTRICT.

Buoying of the New Tsungming Crossing Channel.

REFERRING to Special Notice to Mariners No. 362, notice is hereby given that as soon as circumstances permit the following Buoys will be placed to mark the new channel across the Tsungming banks

An East Entrance Gas-lighted Buoy, painted red, will be placed in a position from which Washaway Beacon will bear S. 1° E., and be distant 46 miles, and will mark the starboard side of the channel for inward-bound vessels.

A First Crossing Buoy (unlighted), painted black and surmounted by a triangular shape, will be placed in a position from which Washaway Beacon will bear S. 28° E., and be distant 45 miles, and will mark the port side of the channel for inward-bound vessels.

A Second Crossing Gas-lighted Buoy. painted red, will be placed in a position from which Washaway Beacon will bear S. 364° E, and be distant 5'1 miles, and will mark the starboard side of the channel for inward-bound vessels.

A West Spit Gas-lighted Buoy, painted in red and black vertical stripes, will be placed in a position from which Washaway Beacon will bear S. 645° E., and be distant 78 miles, and will mark the port side of the chamel for inward- bound vessels.

NOTE.

The Buoys marking the present Crossing will remain in position until the 23rd instant. when they will be discontinued.

The Gas-Buoys marking the new Crossing will not be lighted until the 23rd instant, the date on which the Buoys marking the present Crossing will be discontinued.

Owing to the transitional state of this neighbourhood and the rapid changes that are now taking place, the above alterations should be looked upon as temporary only,

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 15th September, 1911.

T. J. ELDRIDGE,

Acting Coast Inspector,

SOUTH AUSTRALIA,

No. 15 of 1911.

GULF ST. VINCENT.

PORT ADELAIDE RIVER.

REFERRING to notice to mariners, No. 22 of 1910. masters of vessels, pilots, and others are hereby informed that the shoaling in the vicinity of Nos. 5 and 6 beacons, Port Adelaide River, has now been removed and the channel dredged for the full width of the cutting to 23 ft. O.L.W.S.

This affects Admiralty charts Nos. 2389B, 1750, and 1752.

Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, July 31st, 1911.

ARTHUR SEARCY, President of the Marine Board.