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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH FEBRUARY, 1874.

BOARD OF TRADE.

INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS.

ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS.

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The following Alterations and Additions in the International Code of Signals are printed for the information of the Governments of the Countries that have adopted and translated the Signal Book, in order that the corrections may be noted for insertion in the next Editions they may respectively publish.

The following additional Signals should be placed before the Signal H.B., Section I. Part I., containing Danger or Distress Signals.

DISTRESS AND PILOT SIGNALS.

SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.

In the daytime. The following signals, numbered 1, 2, and 3, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals of distress in the daytime:-

1. A gun. fired at intervals of about a minute;

2. The International Code signal of distress indicated by N C;

3. The distant signal, consisting of a square flag having either above or below it a ball, or any-

thing resembling a ball.

At night. The following signals, numbered 1, 2, 3, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals of distress at night:---

1. A gun fired at intervals of about a minute;

2. Flames on the ship (as from a burning tar barrel, oil barrel, &c.);

3. Rockets or shells, of any colour or description, fired one at a time, at short intervals.

SIGNALS TO BE MADE BY SHIPS WANTING A PILOT.

In the daytime. The following signals, numbered 1 and 2, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals for a pilot in the day time, viz. :—-

1. To be hoisted at the fore, the Jack or other national colour usually worn by merchant ships,

having round it a white border, one fifth of the breadth of the flag; or

2. The International Code pilotage signal indicated by P T.

At night. The following signals, numbered 1 and 2, when used or displayed together or separately, shall be deemed to be signals for a pilot at night, viz. :-

1. The pyrotechnic light commonly known as a blue light every fifteen minutes; or,

2. A bright white light, flashed or shown at short or frequent intervals just above the bulwarks,

for about a minute at a time.

N.B. The use of the above Distress and Pilot Signals have been made compulsory in England by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873.

A copy of the Act is attached to this Circular.

BTHC

The following Geographical Signals have been added.

Lequeitio (Lighthouse)

BTID Castrourdiales (Lighthouse)

BTHF

BTHG

BTHJ

San Vicente de la Barquera

Avilés (Lighthouse)

Estaca de Vares (Lighthouse)

BTHK Ria de Muros (Lighthouse)..

BTHL

Huelva

BTHM Marbella (Lighthouse).

BTHIN Velez-Málaga (Lighthouse)

Spain.

San Bernardino, Strait of

Masbate, Island of

Sibuyan

Burias

BTJF

BTJG

Santa Isabel (Fernando Po) Corisco

Guinea.

Gulf of

BTJH

BTJK

BTJL

BTJM

>>

BTJN

Panay

27

BTJP

Calamianes 15

BTJQ

Cebú

"

BTJR

Negros

99

BTHP Torrevieja (Lighthouse)

BTHQ

BTHR Mataró

BTJV

RTHS

Alcudia

BTHV

Soller (Lighthouse)

Islands.

BTHW St. Cruz de Tenerife (Lighthouse)

Manzanillo....

BTJC

Point of Teide

Canaries.

BTKF Mayaqüez

BTJD

Las Palmas

F

Antilles.

Philippine Islands.

BTJS Leite

Maisi, Point of (Lighthouse)

Belearic BTJW Nipe, Port of

BTKC Pinos, Island of..

BTKD

BTKG Aguadilla .

N.B.-To correct Geographical Index.

ADDITIONAL SIGNAL STATIONS.

DENMARK.

A Signal Station for the use of ships at sea, in connexion with the Telegraph Station has been opened at Hirtshals on the north-west coast of Jutland.