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  2. THE EREBUS GUN-BATTERY SHIP.

    As this battery is a remarkable feature in the history of shipbuilding on the Clyde, and it is likely to be the only one ready in tune to take part at the Grand Naval Review, which takes place at Portsmouth on the 23rd instant, the following particulars ...

    Article : 1,437 words
  3. PORT ADELAIDE.

    NOTICE is hereby given, that the black buoy on the north side of the outer bar, at the entrance of the harbour of Port Adelaide, has been shifted a cable's length further to the S.W., and now marks a shoal-patch, on which exists 7 feet at low water, spring tides. ...

    Article : 307 words
  4. CALIFORNIA.—WEST COAST.

    REVOLVING LIGHT ON THE SOUTH FARALLON, OFF SAN FRANCISCO.—The United States Lighthouse Board has given notice that, on the 1st January, 1856, a revolving light would be established on the South Farallon, one of a group of small islands lying about 23 ...

    Article : 246 words
  5. PAGES ISLANDS.

    COMMANDERS and masters of vessels having in their possession the new Admiralty Charts, published on the 1st of June, 1855, are requested to take notice that the "Pages" Islands, in Backstair's Passage are therein erroneously placed, in reference to their ...

    Article : 158 words
  6. PORT OF KAIPARA.

    The positions of and bearings from the two large buoys, laid down on the 5th June in the main channel to this harbour are—The buoy on the inner point of the outer spit to the northward of the main channel, may be seen in clear weather at a ...

    Article : 264 words
  7. PORT ELLIOTT.

    NOTICE is hereby given to masters and commanders of vessels frequenting Port Elliott, that two (2) fairway buoys and leading beacons have been lately laid down in that port. The following directions will be a guide for vessels entering and leaving without ...

    Article : 243 words
  8. THE PASSENGER ACT OF 1856.

    The accompanying Order of the Queen in Council, which has been made in pursuance of the 59th section of the Passengers' Act of 1855, for enforcing order and cleanliness, and securing proper ventilation on board passenger ships, in substituting for the Order ...

    Article : 1,257 words
  9. CONWAY REEF.

    Extract from a Report dated H. M. S. Herald, Ovalau, Figi, 24th July, 1855, forwarded by Captain Denham, R.N., to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty. 3. My next proceeding was to test the position of a reef, thus ...

    Article : 503 words
  10. TO MASTER MARINERS.

    THE above dangerous reef was seen by me whilst on a voyage from Adelaide to Swan River, in the brigantine Hubert Clive, on 21st April, 1856, and, by favourable observations, was found to lie 14 miles in direction South half East (magnetic) from the nearest ...

    Article : 237 words
  11. SINGAPORE.

    The Government of India has given notice that, on the 17th of March last, a fixed light was shewn on the Government Hill Flagstaff at Singapore. The light is bright; it is placed at an elevation of 220 feet above ...

    Article : 217 words
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