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SPECIAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 374.

CHINA SEA.

SHANGHAI DISTRICT.

Temporary Withdrawal of the "Tungsha" Light-vessel.

NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 15th June the Tungsha Light-vessel will be removed for repairs, and that the temporary Light-vessel Samson will take her place.

The Samson is a tug-boat, painted yellow, with one mast and a black funnel. Her mast, which will be surmounted by a black ball, will have a yard across, from each arm of which will be exhibited by night two sixth-order fixed white lights, one vertically over the

other.

The upper light will be 45 feet above the water, and the distance between the upper and lower lights will be 15 feet. In clear weather these lights should be visible 10 miles.

A white light will also be exhibited by night at the fore end of the vessel, to show the direction in which the Light-vessel is heading.

During foggy or thick weather a gong will be sounded at intervals of 1 minute.

If the Light-vessel be driven from her proper position to one where she is of no use as a guide to shipping, the usual lights will not be exhibited, but a small fixed re / light will be shown at each end of the vessel; by day, a red flag will be hoisted.

N.B.-It may possibly happen that one or both of the vertical lights on one yardarın of the temporary Light-vessel may be obscured by her own mast or funnel to a vessel that is approaching her.

W. FERD. TYLER, Coast Inspector.

COAST INSPECTOR'S OFFICE,

SHANGHAI, 31st May, 1912.

HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.

No. 3 of 1912.

REFERRING to Harbour Notification No. 1 of 1912 declaring Hongkong infected, Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Customs and the Consular Body have agreed to the following Regulation for the prevention of the introduction of plague-infected

rats:-

(A) Vessels from plague-infected ports after being admitted to pratique shall not be allowed to lie alongside wharves but must anchor in the stream and discharge and ship cargo by means of cargo boats, using rat guards on the lines by which the cargo boats are made fast, and they shall work cargo by daylight only, under the supervision of inspectors appointed by the Port Sanitary Authorities, Pro- vided, however, that any vessel, for which is presented a certificate signed by the Harbour Master or other duly qualified Port Health Authority at the port. concerned certifying that such vessel has been thoroughly fumigated in all parts, may be allowed to load and discharge at a wharf under the following

conditions:-

1.-that the work of loading and discharging shall go on between the hours

of sunrise and sunset only;

2.—that at sunset loading and discharging shall cease; all cargo por:s and

hatchways shall be closed, and gang-way planks between the vessel. and the wharf withdrawn ;

3.-that all ropes, etc., used for securing the vessel to a wharf or pontoon shall have rat guards, of a pattern approved by the Harbour Master, efficiently fixed thereto;

4.--that a sufficient number of floating fenders shall be placed between the

vessel and the wharf, to keep her at least four feet clear of the wharf- fender ropes to be made fast to the wharf and not to the vessel,

On every arrival from an infected port a new certificate of fumigation must be presented in order to obtain the privileges of discharging at a wharf. Such fumigation in order to qualify vessels for this privilege must have taken place at the infected port during the vessel's last visit there.

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