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No. S. 363.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
THE following notice has been issued.by the Admiralty :--
All traffic into and out of the River Thames must pass through the Edinburgh Channels or through the Black Deep South of the Enock John and Knob Lightbuoys and through the Oaze Deep until further notice. No vessels are to remain under way in the above men- tioned Channels inside the sunk Head Lightbuoy or within a line joining the South Long Sand and East Shingles Buoys between the hours of 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. Vessels at anchor within these limits must not exhibit any lights between the hours of 7 p.m.
and 6 a.m.
All other Channels are closed to navigation.
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,
Hongkong, 5th November, 1914.
BASIL TAYLOR, Commander, R.N., Harbour Master, &c.
THE following is a précis of a Notice to Mariners issued at Dairen (Dalny), by the Marine Bureau of the Kwantung Government.
Basil Taylor, Commander, R.N.,
Harbour Master, &c.
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,
HONGKONG, 5th November, 1914.
The old light at Jijiko, Dairen, has been discontinued, and a new light exhibited, at a height of 95 feet above H. W., from an iron mast, painted white, on a red brick building, 330 feet S. W. by S. S. from the position of the old light, in Latitude 38° 55' 9" N.,
Longitude 121° 40' 7 E.
The New Light is Electric, Fixed, Red, Visible 4 miles.
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION.
No. 5 of 1914.
Canton Harbour: United States Naval Moorings Laid at Fati.
NOTICE is hereby given that a set of head and stern moorings, the property of the United States Government, has been laid in Canton Harbour immediately below the Fati Rock Buoy.
The distance between the buoys is 405 feet, and the least water in the berth is 15 feet reduced to low water springs. The flood or down river anchors are cach at an angle of 25° with the line between the mooring buoys, the angle between them being 50° and each is distant from the flood buoy 180 feet, and the position of these anchors is indicated by two range poles on the Fati shore painted red and white, the northernmost being surmounted by a triangular shape painted red and white, and the southernmost by a similar shape painted black and white. These range poles in line indicate the position of the flood anchors. The cbb or up river anchors are placed in a line with the two mooring buoys on a line of bearing N. 56° W. and S. 56° E. magnetic. The uppermost anchor is distant 540 feet from the ebb buoy, the bearing and distance of the Fati Rock Buoy from the anchor being S. 43° E. magnetic distant 350 feet. The lower ebb anchor lies midway between the upper ebb anchor and the ebb mooring buoy in a straight line.
This berth when not required by the United States Naval Authorities is available for other Men-of-War or merchant steamers.
H. E. HILLMAN,
Harbour Master.
Approved :
F. W. MAZE,
Commissioner of Customs.
HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE,
CANTON, 29th October, 1914.
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