light will be exhibited from the same tower 21 feet below the other, showing from N. by W. to N. E. and red from N. E. to N. by E. E. Note.-When the fixed white light is seen, vessels will be in the line of Mill rock and Cape Carr point, and when it changes to red, in that of Whitburn Stile, Hendon rock, and White Stones. *Tynemouth Castle light will be changed on same date from a revolving white light to a revolving red light. Charts affected by the two Notices, Nos. 29026, 1192, 2239, 2248, and 1934. *Coquet light. From same date, the following alteration will be madeThe red shade from the upper light will be discontinued, the light will then show white to the bearing N. E. ⚫A second light 28 feet below the above light will be exhibited from the tower; it will show white from N.N.W. to N. W. and red from N. W. to N. by E. E., over the Bondicar Bush Shoal. Also, the Hauxley buoy will be painted red. Note.-When the upper light is lost sight of, the line of Hauxley point and Bondicar Bush will be passed; while in the red light great caution is necessary in approaching the shore. Charts affected, Nos. 2902b, 2339, 2248, 1193, and 1721. Spurn Point. From the 1st January the red sector shewn from the Low light will be shewn from the Upper: same bearings as before. Charts affected, 2902a, 1190, and 109. 133.-Sweden-Tylö Island.—A light established, a flashing white light, Aash every ten seconds, lasting three seconds, elevated 56 feet above the sea, should be seen 12 miles. Position lat. 56° 38′ 50′′ N. long, 12° 42′ E. Charts affected, Nos. 2114, 2262, 2842, and 28426. Utklippan light, elevated to 100 feet above the sea, should be seen 16 miles. Fixed and flashing light, flash every two minutes, lasting ten seconds, preceded and followed by short eclipse. Charts affected, Nos. 2360 and 2262. Landsort light-Alteration.-White light with red flash every minute, lasting about five seconds, preceded and followed by short eclipse. A fixed green light in lower part of the tower to mark the channel in the direction vessels should make the upper light. Charts affected, Nos. 2262, 2361, and 2362. Carlskrona harbour.-New leading lights, one a fixed white light, on East point of Dock yard; the other, a fixed red light from a vessel in roadstead. The two in line lead to the anchorage. Gong sounded on board the vessel in foggy weather. Charts affected, Nos. 2262, 2842b, and 2223. Sandhawer, entrance to Stockholm.-Two new leading lights at the Pilot Station at Sando to guide vessels through the other outer shoals to an anchorage off the pilot station; inner light fixed white, outer light fixed red. * These changes have since been postponed until on or about the 11th January. Charts affected, Nos. 2114, 2842, and 2346. Winga lighthouse-Fog horn established will be sounded once or twice every minute, sound will last about five seconds. 134.-West Indies-Cuba-Baracoa harbour.-A fixed white light 50 feet above the sea has been established, should be seen 12 miles, to facilitate entering the fort. Position, lat. 20° 21' 40" N., long. 74° 30' 20' W. Charts affected, Nos. 390, 3926, 393, 2580, 486, and 438. 135.-Adriatic. Salvore point.-A fixed and flashing white light, flash every minute, third order, 112 feet above the sea and seen 17 miles, has been established on Salvore point, near Pirano. Charts affected, Nos. 2158, 2718b, 201, 1440, and 1501. 136.-Madeira-Lourenzo Point-▲ fixed and flashing white light, flash every half minute, second order, elevated 343 feet, seen 25 miles, has been established on Fora Island, lighthouse white, 43 feet high. Position lat. 32o 43' 14' N., long. 16° 39′ 30′′ W. Charts affected, Nos. 2060, 1831, and 1226. 137.-California-Cape Blanco.-A fixed white light, first order, elevated 255 feet, seen 22 miles, has been established in latitude 42° 50' 7" N., longitude 124° 32′ 29′′ W. Charts affected, Nos. 2461, and 2531. 138.-England-South Coast-Dungeness.-In consequence of the extension of the point, a beacon mast, 50 feet high, with two globes one over the other will be placed 400 yards S.E. E. from the lighthouse. The limits of the red sector of light of Dungeness light, denoting the anchorage in East Bay, are now between S. W. by W. W. and S.W. by S. 1S. Charts affected, Nos. 1598, 2675a, 2452, and 1895. West Coast-Dee River Entrance.-In consequence of changes having taken place in Hoyle Sand and Chester Bar, the following alterations in the buoyage have been made Chester Bar Buoy moved N.E. 9 cables. N.E. Middle Patch Buoy moved N.E. 5 cables. South Hoyle Buoy moved W. by S. S. one cable. In March, 1871, a red can buoy will be placed on the east side of the Salisbury Sand. (A chart of this locality, from a recent Admiralty survey, will shortly be published.) Chart affected, No. 1169. CHARTS PUBLISHED BY THE HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, ADMIRALTY, IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1870. 101 21 23 = 3.6 Africa, S.W. coast: Saldanha Bay Baltic: Kiel Fiord 2 0 1 6 2 6 1 0 3 0 m=various Japan: Anchorages in Awomori Bay.... m = = 0.23 South America, Patagonia: Channels between the Gulf of Trinidad and Gulf of Penas 3 0 m 0.23 South America, Patagonia: Channels between Magellan Strait and Gulf of Trinidad...... 3 0 2044 m= 0.56 South America, East Coast: Ilha Grande and 24 Sapotiba Bays 2 6 GENERAL. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.-A meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, London, on Thursday, December 1st; Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. Rewards amounting to £86 were voted to the crews of various lifeboats of the institution for going out on service during recent storms. The St. David's lifeboat rescued the crews of three vessels during a severe westerly gale, and in a heavy sea, on the 22nd November. The Mincing-lane lifeboat at Montrose, N.B., was successful in saving the shipwrecked crew of five men of the schooner Sarah, of Montrose, shortly before the vessel went to pieces. The Whitburn lifeboat also brought ashore the crew of eight men from the brig Elizabeth, of North Shields, which had stranded at Whitburn Steel, on the 18th November. The lifeboat stationed at Cahore, Ireland, was also instrumental in taking safely to Wexford Harbour, through a heavy sea, the fishing smack Dolphin, of Wexford, which had been abandoned by its crew, and was fast drifting on the Blackwater Bank. The second service clasp of the institution, and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, were voted to Charles Mitchell, for his gallant services on the occasion of the wreck of the brig Stephano Grosso, of Genoa, near Port Isaac, Cornwall, during a heavy gale, on the 24th October last. The thanks of the institution inscribed on vellum and £1 were also given to John Herbert, who, during a heavy gale and high sea, went on board the steamer Express, when ashore on Porthdinllaen Beach, by means of a line which had been sent ashore from it, and afterwards, with the aid of the steamer's boat, assisted to save the crew of eight men. A reward was also granted to some men who assisted on the occasion. £10 were likewise voted to the crews of two Filey fishing cobles for saving the crew of eight men of the brig Liberty, of Newcastle, which foundered off the Yorkshire coast. Various other rewards were likewise granted to the crews of shore boats who had saved life from wrecks on our coasts. During the current year, £19,408 had been expended by the society in the formation of new lifeboat stations, and in the maintenance of its large life-saving fleet of 223 boats. In that period the institution had also contributed to the rescue of 918 lives from various wrecks, besides saving 24 vessels from destruction. Altogether the Lifeboat Society had contributed since its establishment to the saving of 20,000 lives from shipwreck. It is earnestly hoped the British public will strengthen the hands of the Committee to carry on the great and national work of the Lifeboat Institution. The trustees of the late Mr. William Thorngate had, through Mr. Henry Compigné, sent £80 to the funds of the institution; and Captain J. A. Perry, of the steamer Humboldt, had collected £5 for it. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch had likewise become an annual subscriber of £10 10s. to the society. T. B. had also given it £300 railway stock, bearing interest at 6 per cent. A new lifeboat had recently been forwarded to Kessingland, Suffolk, and had been publicly launched there. The boat was the gift to the institution of the people of Bolton. CAPTAIN Sherard Osborn complains that Earl Russell has misrepresented him in his letter about the national defences. Earl Russell says that Captain Osborn advised "to line our east and north-east coasts with ships of war," proving thereby that he did not feel the security he professed for our safety, even if the Scheldt was in the hands of an enemy. "Now my object," Captain Osborn says, "was to assist, by my humble testimony, in dispelling the illusion that the safety of Great Britain was identified with that of Belgium, or that the Scheldt was a pistol pointed at the heart of England, or the key of the North Sea, as ancient saws led many to suppose. I tried to show that natural ports on the opposite side of the North Sea could be neutralized by artificial ones constructed on our own coasts, and pointed out how strange it was that from the Thames to the Orkneys, along the whole eastern seaboard of England and Scotland, where our cities and merchant shipping were open to attack from the Baltic to Dunkirk, no harbour of refuge existed into which vessels could run for shelter, or where our war ships could assemble in case of hostilities. Beyond this I do not go, though I lamented the want of proper vessels in our navy for our own coast defence, and in that regret I have been more than justified by the lamentable failure of the French ironclads to do more than a little piracy in capturing German unarmed traders; and I know only too well that on the bad model of the French ironclads our Admiralty have long persisted in constructing our fleet."-Pall-Mall Gazette. On the 3rd was launched at Sheerness the paddle-wheel dispatch vessel Lively, of 835 tons; 250 horse-power. This vessel was commenced in April last, and was therefore only eight months building. Her length between perpendiculars, 230 ft.; for tonnage, 200 ft.; breadth for tonnage, 28 ft. 1 in.; depth of hold, 14 ft. 6 in. The Lively will carry only two guns. THE inauguration of a statue of that greatest of navigators and discoverers, Christopher Columbus, at Aspinwall, on the Isthmus of Panama, is an event not to be passed over in a magazine devoted to maritime affairs, without notice. The statue was erected at the expense of the ex-Empress of the French, herself a descendant of those for whom the great admiral accomplished so much, and on whose country he shed such honour. Strange to say, not one Spaniard was present at the inauguration, the post of honour being filled by an Englishman. As Columbus was the first to make the great continent of America known to Europe, it seemed something of a coincidence that the man who presided at the inauguration. should have been the first to connect the two continents telegraphically, Sir Charles Bright. THE Trinity House has addressed a circular letter to the leading shipowners and marine societies in London, proposing to make a bye-law to license skilled men-upon such examination as would not exclude any practically qualified person-to pilot, at low rates, coasting vessels navigating between London and Gravesend which may be now exempted, but which, if employing a pilot, are bound to take a licensed man (if his services are offered), and pay him at the regular pilotage rates. DURING the past summer the wreck of the Golden Fleece off Sully Island in the Bristol Channel, has been the scene of interesting submarine operations by a Corps of Royal Engineers, under the immediate direction of Colonel Gallwey and Lieut. Moore, R.E. |