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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH APRIL, 1881. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 128.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th April, 1881.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, 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 to which it relates. See Admiralty Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, pp. 312
and 313.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 237).
CHINA SEA.
APPROACH TO BALABAC STRAIT.
Sunken Dangers in Mallawallé Channel.
The following information has been received froin Commander C. Johnstone, H.M.S. Egeria, relative to the existence of two sunken rocks lying near the fairway of the northern part of Mallawallé channel, south-eastern approach to Balábac
strait:-
These dangers (Egeria rocks), on one of which the British steam vessel Royalist is stated to have touched, are of a dark colour, and not easily seen, with depths of from 9 to 12 fathoms close around and between them.
The Southern danger is a pinnacle rock, with 4 feet over it at low water spring tides, lying with the following bearings and distance, viz.:-
Islet north-west of Mallawallé island Mallawallé island peak (562 feet)
South extreme of Mallawallé island.
.N. 55° E.
N. 81 E., distant 4th miles. ..S. 70 E.
These bearings place the rock in lat. 7° 3′ 35′′ N., long. 117° 13′ 0′′ E.
The northern rock is about 20 yards square with 3 feet over it at low water spring tides; it bears N. 40° E. from the southern danger, distant one cable.
The north extreme of Mallawallé island and the south end of the northern off-lying islet just touching, leads about one cable south-eastward of Egeria rocks--The islet north-westward of Little Mollcangan seen between Molleangan island and Little Molleangan (but nearer Molleangan island), leads northward of Egeria rocks.
NOTE. The rocks 30 feet high, lying in the southern part of Mallawallé chaunel, about 3 miles eastward of Silk island, are named Parankas.
(The bearings are Magnetic. Variation 1o Easterly in 1880.)
By Command of their Lordships,
FREDK. J. EVANS,
Hydrographer
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 22nd December, 1880.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-China sea, No. 2660b; Palawan Island, No. 967; Balábac strait, No. 948: Also, China Sea Directory, vol. II., 1879, page 153.
The substance of this notice, as soon as it is received on board, 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 to which it relates. See Admiralty Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, pp. 312 and 313.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 240.)
CHINA SEA. CARIMATA STRAIT. Sunken Danger.
The following information has been received from Lieutenant and Commander R. F. Hoskyn, H.M. Surveying vessel Flying Fish, relative to the existence of a sunken danger in Carimata strait, distant about 17 miles N. by E. from Nangka island:-
This danger (Flying Fish shoal) has 3 fathoms over it at low water, with depths of from 8 to 10 fathoms around at the distance of half-a-mile, and beyond that distance from 20 to 25 fathoms.
Position, lat. 2° 13′ 20′′ S., long. 108° 38′ 15′′ E.
By Command of their Lordships,
FREDK J. EVANS,
Hydrographer.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 29th December, 1880.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:-Indian ocean, No. 748b; Eastern archipelago, No. 941a; Carimata strait, No. 2160: Also, China Sea Directory, vol. I., 1878, page 315.
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