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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH APRIL, 1883.

The substance of this Notice is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions and Light-list to which it relates.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. FOREIGN LIGHTS, &c.

[No. 19 of 1883.]

ENGLAND-THAMES RIVER.

(64.) Experimental buoy, Knob channel. (NM. 19-'83.)

Information has been received that a new type of buoy of elongated or spar shape, painted in diagonal stripes and sur- mounted with letter B, has been placed on the eastern side of the Knob channel, for the purpose of comparison, as regards utility, with buoys now used by the Trinity House corporation.

The buoy is in line between the North Knob and Knob buoys, distant 1,000 yards from the former, and 1,600 yards from the latter.

The Trinity House corporation will be glad to receive reports from masters and pilots of passing vessels as to any advantages, or otherwise, which it may possess, (especially as to visibility, either by day or by night), when compared with the buoys already in use.

(Trinity House Notice to Mariners, No. 207, London, 1882.)

(65.)

PLYMOUTH SOUND,

Wreck buoy and vessel. (N. M. 19-'83.)

Also, that a green buoy, marked "WRECK," has been placed about 30 fathoms SE. of the barque Ellen Rickmers, sunk off Penlee point, Plymouth sound.

The buoy lies in 13 fathoms at low water spring tides, on the following bearings:

Penlee point

Breakwater light-house

..NW. by N. N., mile. ........NE. 4 N., 1 miles.

The top-gallant poles show at low water, and arrangements have been made for removing the masts when the weather permits.

A wreck-marking vessel has been placed 30 fathoms SE. of the wreck, exhibiting marks by day and lights by night, in accordance with the regulations, indicating that she should be passed on that side on which two balls or two lights are shown. (Bearings magnetic. Variation 20° 15′ westerly in 1883.) (Trinity House Notice to Mariners, No. 206, London, 1882.)

WEST COAST-RIVER DEE.

(66.) Buoyage. (N. M. 19-'83.)

Also, that it is the intention, at an early date, to substitute a large 13-foot conical for the present and to move it 1 miles W NW. W. from its present position, where it will serve as a fairway buoy mark the spit of the West Hoyle sand.

Also, to place a buoy of a more distinctive character at Chester bar. Further notice will be issued when the above alterations have taken place.

With reference to Notice to established on Grand Dodchal.

(Bearings magnetic. Variation 20° westerly in 1883.) (Trinity House Notice to Mariners, No. 199, London, 1882.) ENGLISH CHANNEL-FRANCE-SAINT MALO. (67.) Beacon on Grand Dodehal. ́ (N. M. 19-'83.)

OYLE BUOY,

and

Mariners, No. 10 (31) of 1883, information has been received that the beacon has been

(Annonce Hydrographique, No. 179, (1037), Paris, 1882.)

This Notice affects the following Charts, &c.:

Hydrographic Office:

(64 to 67, inclusive.) No. 22, North Atlantic Ocean, Sheet II. (64, 66 and 67.) No. 657b, English Channel, Sheet II. (64) Nos. 290 and 310, Dover Strait and Approaches. *

(65.) Nos. 657a and 315, Plymouth Sound.

(66.) Nos. 5366 and 5526, Holyhead to Liverpool.

(67.) No. 684, NW. Coast of France, Sheet V.

British Admiralty:

(64 to 67, inclusive.) Nos. 2059, 2060A and 2, British Islands.

(64, 65 and 67.) Nos. 1598 and 1, British Islands to Mediterranean Sea.

(64.) Nos. 2182A, 2675A, 1610 and 1607, River Thames, Sheet II.

(65.) Nos. 2675B, 2620 and 30, Plymouth Sound and Homoaze.

(66.) Nos. 1824A, 1825B and 1170B, Holyhead to Liverpool, Western Sheet. (67.) Nos. 2675A, 2669B and 2700, France, North Coast.

Sailing Directions, &c.:

"North Sea Pilot," Part III, 1882, page 269 (64).

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English Channel," Part 1872, page 51, (65).

"West Coast of England." 1876, page 120 (66).

"English Channel," Part II, 1877, page 135 (67).

U. S. Light-list No. 6 of 1882.

No.

Page.

N. M. 19-'83.

(65.)

101........

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By order of the Bureau of Navigation:

J. C. P. de KRAFFT,

Commodore, U. S. N., Hydrographer to the Bureau.

U. S. HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, Washington, D. C., January 19, 1883.

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LIGHT-VESSEL

30 fathoms SE, of wreck

2

F.

101

Two balls by day..

1883 Must be passed on the side on which two balls or two lights are shown. The wreck lies on the follow- ing bearings: Penlee point, N NW. W.; Break- water light-house, NE. 4 N.

(N. M. 19-'83.)