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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 1869.
VOL. XV.
No. 2.
No. 1.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notification received from the Government of India, relative to Light Houses on British Burmah, is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 5th January, 1869.
MARINE DEPARTMENT.
NOTIFICATION.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
FORT WILLIAM, the 19th November, 1868.
No. 4 of 1868.-The following notice has been received for publication from the Chief Commissioner, British Burmah, in a letter dated Rangoon, 5th October, 1868:-
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
The following lighthouses are about to be established off the coast of British Burmah, probably on the 31st May, 1869, and this is issued as a warning in case they should be so established:→→
1.-COAST LIGHTHOUSE.
On the Krishna Shoal, Gulf of Martaban, Bay of Bengal. In latitude N. 15° 36′ 30′′; longitude E. 95° 35'. A light- house on screw piles in 3 fathoms of water at low water on the southeastern edge of the above shoal, showing a fixed dioptric light of the second order. The focal plane of the light 55 feet above high water rise, and fall 12 feet at full and change, visible 15 miles.
The light is cut off at W.S.W. to the westward, and at N.N.E. to the eastward, the centre of the light being S.E.
In making this light (the object of which is to enable vessels to round the Baraque Point so as to avoid the dangers of the Baraque Flat and Krishma Shoal) from the westward, a vessel should keep in not less than 7 fathoms of water to the south, steering east till the light bears N. W. and distant from 5 to 10 miles, then steering N. E. by N. 40 miles to make the China Buckeer lighthouse at the mouth of the Rangoon river. Vessels from the northward going south must not get in less than 6 fathoms of water to the westward, or make the light on a bearing to the W. of S. W. by S.; if after passing the light a ship is going to the westward, she can turn in that direction when the light bears N. W., keeping in 7 fathoms.
2.-HARBOUR LIGHTHOUSE.
The China Buckeer for the mouth of the Rangoon river on the western side.
Hitherto the entrance to the channel to the Rangoon river has been marked by a light ship in 3 fathons of water. This light ship will not be removed till this and the following lighthouse have been illuminated.
The lighthouse is situated on the high land of China Buckeer, which is generally first made by ships bound for Rangoon, and is about 2 miles north-east of the mouth of the China Buckeer river.
It is on screw piles, and the lower part being against a back ground of dark trees, will be painted white.
It is close to high water mark, but the sands at low water stretch 6 miles to the eastward of it. Ships must therefore keep well to seaward from it.
It will bear a dioptric light, the upper and lower cupolas showing a fixed light, and the centre drum a revolving light, attaining its greatest brilliancy once a minute; it can be seen 18 miles from the deck of a ship. It is in latitude N. 160 17 and longitude E. 96o 13'.
3.-HARBOUR LIGHTHOUSE.
The eastern grove for the mouth of the Rangoon river on the eastern side.
This lighthouse is also on screw piles, in latitude N. 16° 29' longitude E. 96° 27′ 50′′.
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This lighthouse will show a light of 60 and will be cut off to the eastward due south; 10° of this angle will show a condensed light, the centre of which will pass through the present position of the light ship, or in a direction S. 30° W. This condensed light will be visible 18 miles from the mast head of a ship, and the remaining 50° of light will show 12 miles from the deck of a vessel.
Siling directions for making the mouth of the Rangoon River.
Having made the China Buckeer Light from the southward or eastward, a vessel must not go to the northward of a bearing to it of west to avoid the eastern sands; and to avoid the western sands the Eastern Grove Light mast not be brought to bear to the eastward of N, N. E.
All vessels steering from the eastward should make the China Buskeer Light bearing W. by N., and should not proceed on their tourse beyond a point where the eastern Grove Lighthouse will bear as above, N. N. E.
Ships are not to go up channe by the eastern Crove Light, but must anchor south of a bearing to the China Buckeer of west.
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