GODLET HEAD FOG SIGNAL.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13226, 21 September 1908, Page 9

GODLET HEAD FOG SIGNAL.

Notification is given in last -reek's "Cazwi'te" that on and after Monday, sth October. 1908, the following fog signals will be rounded from a position in a, ledgp «f rocks ah-nit 60ft above pea-level, half a cable i south of Godloy Head lighthouse. The sisals consist of explosions of cotton powdeT charges at intervals of five minutes, and will be made whs-n the lano* is likely to be obsouTod at a distaiwe of about three miles from ee&warc? by either fog, mist, falling grow, or continuous rain. It is anticipated that those sound sigwils will be heard at ary distance under •4-to mile*, varying according to the state of the arm-sphere and the force eaid direction of tbe wind. Special warndnps to mariners canocrninig: fo<r signals published by tho Board of Tr&do are as follows:— "Sound i* conveyed in a very capricious way through the atmosphere. Apaxt from wind. 1-arge nre_s of silence lave been found in different directions awd difloreni distances from tho signals, in eomo instances even ■ when in cloeo proximity to tho sound signal. '.The mariner should not aesume—< I "L That he is out of ordinary hearine _i_tance because he fails to hear the sound. j "2. Tha<t because ho hears a fog signal faintly that be is at _ jrneat distamco from it. , "3. Thut he ia near it because ho bears the ! sound plainly. "4. That the distance from and tbe intensity of tbe sound on any one ocreuiioTi is a guide to him for any future occasion. "5. Thflt t!>? fo? si-m.-i' has cetwwd poundir.g beeaufo he does not hoar it eyeni when in close proximity."