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No. S. 306.
NOTICES TO MARINERS.
Approaches to Bombay.
FROM about 6th to about 22nd December, 1916, the Unattended Bombay Floating Light-vessel will be withdrawn from her station and replaced by a Light-vessel painted red and having three masts.
By DayShe will carry a red ball at the main mast head.
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By Night-She will exhibit a white light revolving once in every 20 seconds at a height 36 feet above the water line, visible all round the horizon at a distance in clear weather of 10 miles.
PORT OFFICE,
BOMBAY, 20th November, 1916.
C. S. HICKMAN, Commander, D.S.O., R.I.M.,
Port Officer, Bombay, Ant
TRANSLATION.
Notification No. 1071 of Department of Communications.
Shimabara Gulf, Kyushu.
NOTICE is hereby given that, the newly established Yushima Lighthouse, on Yushima, Yushima Seto, Shimabara Gulf, Kyushu, will be exhibited as follows since the 1st of December, 1916.
Yushima Lighthouse.
Position.-Latitude 32° 36' 15" N., and Longitude 130° 19' 37" E. (According
to the Japanese Admiralty Chart No. 169.)
Description. Circular concrete tower, painted white.
Height of light.—32 shaku above the base, 128 shaku above the water.
Character of light.-Fifth order, acetylene gas occulting white, light 3 seconds,
eclipse 2 seconds.
Illuminated arc. An arc 267°, from N. 20° W., through N. E. and S. to S. 67
W. (magnetic bearings taken from seaward).
Power-1,800 candles.
Visible distance.--173 nautical miles in clear night.
BARON KENJIRO DEN, Minister of State for Communications.
TOKYO, November 28th, 1916.
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