New Zealand Gazette – 1858 – No. 25

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✨ Maritime Aids and Life Boats

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PORT FAIRY.
BUOYS AND MOORINGS.

Name and No. of Buoy.	Position and depth at low water.	Color and description of Buoy.	Magnetic bearings of remarkable objects from each Buoy.
Mooring, No. 1, ...	Inner anchorage, 3$rac{1}{4}$ fathoms	Red Iron barrel buoy	Centre of Saddle Hill, S. 11º W.
Patches, No. 2	Northern Extremity of Patches, 3 fathoms	Black Iron barrel buoy	Direction staff on west shore, N. 45º W.
S.W. Mooring Anchor Buoy, No. 3	N.E. of Patches, 5 fathoms	Red Iron barrel buoy	Government flagstaff, S. 65º W.
End of S.W. Mooring chain (two buoys,) No. 4	N.E. of Patches, 6 fathoms	Red Iron barrel buoy	Northernmost direction staff, N. 48º W.
Largest Mooring Anchor Buoy, No. 5	Government Flagstaff and Old Mill in one, 6$rac{1}{2}$ fathoms	Red Iron barrel buoy	Government flagstaff, S. 60º W Northern direction staff, N. 48 W.
End of largest Mooring chain, No. 6	7 fathoms	Red Iron barrel buoy	Government flagstaff. S. 61º W. Northern direction staff, N. 54º W.
Outer Anchorage Buoy, No. 7	Fuller's Mill on with south side of St. John's church, 7$rac{1}{4}$ fathoms	Red Iron barrel buoy	Government flagstaff, S. 54º W. Northern direction staff, N. 50º W.
End of outer Mooring chain, No. 8.	Fuller's Mill on with north end of St. John's church, 7 fathoms	Red Iron barrel buoy	Government flagstaff, S. 56º W. Northern direction staff, N. 65º W.
			Government flagstaff, S. 58º W. Northern direction staff, N. 68º W.
			Government flagstaff, S. 52º W. Northern direction staff, N. 65º W.

PORTLAND.
BUOYS.

Name and No. of Buoy.	Position and depth at low water.	Color and description.	Magnetic Bearings of remarkable objects from each buoy.
Quarantine Buoy	Off Blacknose Point, 7 fathoms	Nun buoy, yellow	Lawrence Rocks, extreme east point, S.52ºE.
Whaler's Reef buoy	Off Whaler's Reef Bluff, 4 fathoms	Nun buoy, black and white chequered	Blacknose Point, S. 11º E. Whaler's Bluff, extreme east point. W. 5º E. Flagstaff, Observatory Hill, S. 10º E.

PORT ALBERT.
BUOYS AND BEACONS.

Name and No. of Buoy.	Position and depth at low water.	Color and description.	Magnetic Bearings of remarkable objects from each Buoy.
Entrance Buoy, No. 2	Starboard hand, coming in, 8 feet	Red	Rotunda Island on with Cape Wellington, Mount Hunter S W. by W., North Seal Island S. E. by S. $rac{1}{2}$ S.
No. 3	Port hand coming in, 9 feet	Black	From 2 to 3 N. E. Townsend's Point S. W. $rac{3}{4}$ W., Point of Channel N.E. by E.
No. 4	Starboard hand coming in, 7$rac{1}{2}$ feet	Red	From 3 to 4 N.E. by E $rac{1}{2}$ E.
No. 5	Port hand coming in, 10 feet	Black	From 4 to 5 N. $rac{1}{2}$ W.
No. 6	Port hand coming in, 12 feet	Black	From 5 to 6 N. by E., at the mouth of the creek on Sunday Island leading to the Pilot station.
No.7	Port hand coming in, 10 feet	Black	N. by E. $rac{1}{2}$ E. off the N. E. point of Sunday Island.

WARRNAMBOOL.
BUOYS AND MOORINGS.

Name and No.	Position and depth at low water.	Color and Description of Buoys.	Magnetic Bearings of.
Outer Mooring Buoy, No. 1	Bearing from extreme point of S. E. reef N 8º W., distant 2 cables length, in 28 feet	Red barrel buoy on mooring anchor, the chain laid on N.N.W.; also, a red barrel buoy on chain 15 fathoms; and a white buoy on the extreme end of chain.	Extreme S.E. reef S. 8º E. New Jetty, N. 53º W. Flagstaff, N. Funnel on Bateman's Hill, N. 58º W. Western Round Sand Hill on with River Merri, N. 68º W. Hopkin's River, N. 83º W.
Inner Mooring Buoy, No. 2	Extreme point of S. E reef N. 16º W., 1$rac{1}{4}$ cables from south reef, in 21 feet	Red barrel buoy on mooring chain, laid out to N.N.W., with red barrel buoy on chain, 15 fathoms from the end, and a white barrel buoy on the extreme end of chain.	Extreme end of S.E. reef, S. 15º E. New Jetty, N. 15º W. Inner Island, west end. S. 79º W. Flagstaff, N. 15º E. Distance from Jetty, 2$rac{1}{4}$ cables.

LIFE BOAT STATIONS.

Life Boats are being built which will shortly be stationed at the undermentioned places: --

Port Phillip Heads
Warrnambool
Portland Bay
Port Albert
Belfast

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