48649-1916-Supplementary-Notices-to-Mariners — Page 2

Circular No. 643-21.

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The Panama Canal.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

BALBOA HEIGHTS, C.Z., April 24, 1916.

Changes in Lighting System.

1. A gas buoy has been established on the 17-foot spot in Cristobal Harbor which was marked by a white nun buoy, and the white nun buoy marking this spot has been discontinued. The gas buoy is cylindrical, surmounted by a pyramidal lattice super- structure painted red and black horizontal stripes, showing a red occulting light visible six miles on the following bearings :

Toro Point beacon,

23°

(N. by E. 3-4 E. Mag.)

Washington Hotel left tangent, 79° 30′ (E. NE. 7-16 E. Mag.) Toro Point lighthouse,

309°

(NW. 7-8 W. Mag.)

2. Two-lighted buoys marking the channel in Miraflores Lake have been established, one painted red showing a fixed red light placed in 30 feet of water midway between spar buoys Nos. 4 and 6, and one painted black showing a fixed white light, placed in 40 feet of water midway between spar buoys Nos. 3 and 5. None of the spar buoys has been changed.

3. The lights displayed from beacons Nos. 1 to 22 inclusive in Gaillard Cut have been turned out. There have been established in Gaillard Cut 50 lights, lighting both banks of the Cut, extending from beacon No. 1 to beacon No. 22. These lights are spaced 1,000 feet apart and are placed 6 feet above the water in the Canal, just inside the Canal prism, the lights on the east bank showing white and those on the west bank showing red.

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GEO. W. GOETHALS,

Governor.

The Government of the Philippine Islands Department of Finance and Justice BUREAU OF CUSTOMS

MANILA

June 2, 1916.

NOTICE TO MARINERS NO. 448.

Port Bolinao.

The fixed red light at Port Bolinao formerly displayed from a wooden post painted white is now shown from a white concrete pillar crected about 35 feet to the rear of its former location and is approximately 85 feet above high water. Visible 10 miles.

(See No. 15, List of Lights, Buoys, etc., 1914.)

Pandan.

The occulting white light on the beach near the town of Pandan, west coast of Luzon, formerly displayed from a white wooden framed structure is now shown from a white concrete pillar and is approximately 41 feet above high water. Range and are of visibility remain the same.

(See No. 8, List of Lights, Buoys, etc., 1914.)

B. HERSTEIN, Insular Collector of Customs.

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