✨ Pilot Signal Instructions
PILOT SIGNALS
FOR
THE GREY RIVER, WEST COAST.
[Image of four signal masts with flags and balls]
E X P L A N A T I O N.
- Ball and Red Flag at Mast-head—High Water, take the Bar.
- Ball and Blue Flag Half-mast—Half-flood, wait for Tide. When the Bar may safely be attempted at Half-flood the Red Flag will be at Mast-head.
- Ball upon Lower-mast Cap with White Flag—Ebb Tide, Bar dangerous.
- No Signal—do not attempt to take the Bar.
- Arm pointing to the Right Hand entering from Seaward—more to the South.
- Arm pointing to the Left Hand entering from Seaward—more to the North.
- Arm up and down with Signal Mast—as you go.
- When more than one Vessel is crossing the Bar the foremost Vessel will be Piloted by the Signals, the others following in her wake.
Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Nelson, by R. LUCAS, Bridge-street, Nelson,
Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.
Nelson Provincial Gazette 1865, No 11
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Establishment of Pilot Signals at the Grey River
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🚂 Transport & Communications17 March 1865
Pilot signals, Grey River, West Coast, Navigation, Shipping, Maritime safety
- R. Lucas, Official Printer