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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD DECEMBER,
1892.
Hainan Head Bank Buoy.—A six-foot conical red buoy surmounted by a black inverted frustum cage, moored in 4 fathoms, about 9 cables N. 67° E. from Hainan Point. This buoy must be left on the starboard hand by vessels entering the Strait from the eastward.
Hainan Reef Buoy.-A six-foot conical black buoy surmounted by a black spherical cage moored in 12 fathoms about 2 cables to the northward of the outer rock of Hainan Reef which is marked on the British Admiralty Chart No. 876: "dries 4 feet." This buoy must be left on the port hand by vessels entering the Strait from the eastward.
The bearings given are magnetic and the depths are for low water of spring tides.
DIRECTIONS.
With the buoys in the positions above described the best track for vessels to follow when using the South Channel is to pass 3 cables eastward of the Magpie Rock Buoy and then steer to pass the Hainan Head Bank Buoy at about the same distance, taking care to guard against being set towards the shore, and remembering that it is safe to borrow towards the banks on the starboard hand, of which the lead, which should be kept going, will give warning, while on the other side the bottom is rocky and uneven and the lead gives no warning. The Hainan Reef Buoy may be rounded at a distance of one cable or more, at discretion.
APPROVED:
J. NEUMANN,
Custom House,
Assistant in Charge.
Kiungchow, 19th November, 1892.
C. J. PRICE, Acting Harbour Master,
Government of Japan.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 544 of the year 1892.
JAPAN.
(1447.) KIUSHU.—WEST COAST.—NAGASAKI HARBOUR.—A BUOY MOORED
ON A SUNKEN REEF OFF TATEGAMI.
To mark the position of a sunken reef off Tategami in Nagasaki harbour, Kiushu west coast, a buoy has been moored in 4 fathoms at low water springs eastward of the reef.
The buoy is a conical iron buoy painted black, with a cylindrical top, and 10 feet high above the sea. From this buoy the following bearings (true) were taken:
N, 12° 5' E.
S. 37° 25′ E.
Minage point
East end of the entrance to Kosuge patent slip Megami point.
.S. 18° 5' W.
Navy charts: Nos. 92, 108.
(1448.) NORTH-EAST ISLANDS.-SUISHO-JIMA.-BENZAITO-MARI SUNKEN REEF.
The following information has been received from Commander N. Kashiwabara commanding H. I. J. M. S. Banjo 27 October 1892 that, he has examined the sunken feef in Benzaitomari bay on the west side of Suisho-jima on which the steamer Seiryo maru of Nippon Yusen Company touched in 18 September 1892.
The reef is a flat and oval-shaped reef, about 2 cables long, north-west and south-east by about 14 cables wide north- east and south-west, with a least depth of 1 fathom at low water on it, having 1 or 2 fathoms for a distance of half or one cable around it.
From this reef the following bearings (magnetic) were taken:
West end of Bokisenbe-zaki
West end of Gome-jima
S. W. end of the coast to the south-eastward of Benzai-zaki
Navy charts: Nos. 8, 208, 235, 93.
........ S. 6° 40′ W.
..S. 17° 0′ W. .N. 58° 0′ W.
(1449.) HOKUSHU.-SOUTH COAST.-NEMURO DISTRICT.—THE PARTICULARS
OF THE SUNKEN REEF NEAR HABOMAI ISLAND.
Referring to the sunken reef given in Notice to Mariners No. 509, the following information has been received from the same commander.
The reef is a sharp pinnacle rock 20 or 30 feet long S.E. and N.W. by about 10 feet wide with a least depth of 2 fathoms on its top, while depth of 5 or 6 fathoms are obtained immediately off it. Its position is situated about 11⁄2 cables the north-westward farther than one given in Notice to mariners No. 509.
From this reef the following bearings (magnetic) were taken :-
Middle of Isomoshiri-jima Summit of Furarimui-zaki, South end of Sukiushi-zaki,
Navy charts: Nos. 8, 208, 235, 93.
Hydrographic Office, Tokyo, Japan, 5 November, 1892.
..N. 60° 30′ E. .N. 10° 30' E. ...........N. 62° 15' W.
Captain K. KIMOTSKI, I.J.N., Hydrographer.
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