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No. 130.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1877.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd June, 1877.
Government of India.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 5.)
HINDOSTAN-WEST COAST-SIND.
Extension of the Hajamri Mouth of the River Indus.
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The Bombay Government has notified that the banks forming the Hajamri mouth of the River Indus have recently been re-surveyed and found to have greatly extended since the survey of 1867.
Lieutenant Stiffe (late Indian Navy), who executed the survey, reports that the outer edge of the shoal water is now 3 nautical miles to seaward of its former position, and is in latitude 24° 4′ 24′′ N.; and longitude east of Kurrachee lighthouse 14′ 33′′"; great caution therefore is required by vessels proceeding to or leaving Kurrachee.
At a distance of 2 miles from the shoal, there is a depth of 10 fathoms at low water. The Kukiwari banks show no further material extension.
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By Direction of the Government of India,
JOHN HENRY ELLIS, Staff Comdr., R.N.,
Deputy Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 25th April 1877.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts: Indus tidal channels from Manora point, to Kaha river, No. 41; Sind and Kutch Coast, No. 42; Kurrachee to Vingorla, No. 826; and the Indian Marine Survey Chart, No. 15; also Admiralty West Coast of Hindostan Pilot, page 233; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I., page 337.
If this Notice is received on boardship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. Singapore Straits.
Position &c., of a coral shoal one mile S.E. by E. E. from Sultan Beacon.
A coral patch was found by Her Majesty's Ship under my command with only 19 feet of water over it low water (spring tide) one mile S.E. by E. E. from the Sultan Beacon. The Admiralty Chart No. 2403 of the Singapore Strait shewing 10 fathoms at the spot.
It is a coral patch with sharp pinnacles, the lead when sounding on it falling from 19 to 23 feet.
It extends half a cable in a N.E. by N. and S.W. by S. direction, the least water (19 feet) being found at the S.W. by S. extremity, but it does not extend in any other direction.
The following Bearings (Magnetic) were taken from the ship whilst at anchor in 5 fathoms on the shoal:-
Sultan Shoal Beacon, N.W. by W. 4 W.
Raffles Light (Cony Island), S.E. L ́E.
Tanjong Bolus, W. by N.
These bearings, which were also verified by angles, place the shoal in
Latitude..
Longitude.
The following charts, &c. are affected by this danger :
No. 2,403, Singapore Strait.
1° 14′ 29′′ N.
.103° 40′ 12′′ E.
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2,404, Singapore Main Strait.
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1,355, Malacca Strait (sheet 2).
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2,660a, China Sea southern portion (sheet 1).
2,483, Indian Ocean General Chart,
7486, Indian Ocean (sheet 2).
China Sea Directory, vol. 1, page 290 and 292 of 1867.
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C. E. D. WILLCOX, Commander, H.M.S. Growler.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. Singapore Straits.
A large Iron Nunn Buoy, painted red, has been placed on the centre of the Coral Shoal touched by the S.S. Ajax when drawing 23 feet water, on the morning of the 30th April, 1877, after passing the Sultan Shoal Beacon, and steering the mid-channel course for New Harbour heads.
This shoal has been carefully sounded all over by Captain Willcox, H. M.'s Ship Growler, who reports that it only extends half a cable's length N.E. by N. and S.W. by S. and that in shape it was a kind of pyramid patch, and the least water found was 19 feet at low water spring tides.
The Buoy should be given a berth of two cables' length each way, and the position is one mile S.E. by E. E. from Sultan Shoal Beacon, Le.
Latitude Longitude
Singapore. 22nd May, 1877.
1° 14′ 2′′ North. .103° 40′ 12′′ East.
HENRY ELLIS,
Master-Attendant.
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