No. 170.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1876. 399
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd September, 1876.
Government of India.
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(No. 12.)
INDIA, MALABAR COAST-COCHIN.
(1.) Displacement of the Buoy in Narakel Roadstead.
The Government of Madras has given notice that the buoy in Narakel Roadstead has shifted from its position. Commanders of vessels picking up anchorage should therefore be guided solely by bearings.
The anchorage, distant about 3 miles off shore, is in 4 to 5 fathoms, with—
Narakel flagstaff bearing from Cochin lighthouse
...
E. by S. to E. S. E S. E. S. to S. E. † S.
Convenient and safe anchorage in 4 fathoms, about 2 miles off shore, may also be found to the Southward on the following bearings-
Narakel flagstaff Cochin flagstaff'
East. S. E. by S.
INDIA, MALABAR COAST-TRAVANCORE.
(2.) Buoy Marking the Smooth-Water Anchorage to the Southward of Alipee (Aulapolay).
The authorities of the Port of Alipee announce that the red buoy marking the smooth-water anchorage or mud bank, which has shifted further to the Southward of Alipee, is now in 44 fathoms, 2 miles off shore, on the following bearings-
Alipee lighthouse
...
Porcat, or Porcaud, Church in line with a large tree
2
N. W. E. by S. 1S.
[Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 0o 40′ Easterly in 1876].
By Direction of the Government of India,
A. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.),
Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.
MARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 15th August 1876.
(1.) This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts: Sheet XI, West Coast of India, No. 749; Viziadroog to Cochin, No. 2737; Cochin to Cape Comorin, No. 2738, and Taylor's Sailing Directory, page 407.
(2.) Sheet XII, West Coast of India, No. 750; Alipee Roads, No. 65; Cochin to Cape Comorin, No .2738, and Taylor's Sailing Directory, pages 408, 409.
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.
No. 64,
CHINA SEA.
NINGPO DISTRICT.
ROCK IN THE KO CHANNEL.
Notice is hereby given that there is a conical rock, unmarked on the charts, with four feet on it at low water spring tides, in the Ko Channel, and in line between the eastern extremity of Ko Point and the western end of Dumb Island. Its position is determined by the following bearings:-
The western extreme of Dumb Island, N. N. W. 3 W. The southern extreme of Deadman Island, E. by N.
There are from 6 to 14 fathoms of water all round this rock.
By order of the Inspector General of Customs,
DAVID M. HENDERSON,
Engineer-in-Chief.
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS, ENGINEER'S OFFICE, SHANGHAI, 6th September, 1876.
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