NOTICE TO MARINERS.

West Coast Times, Issue 1187, 13 July 1869, Page 2

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

The following notifications, of importance to mariners, have been published :—: —

The buoy of the moorings in Howell Roads. Foveaux Strait, broke adrift in a late gale ; due notice will be given when it will be replaced.

It is notified for the information of mariners that a small Jwrought-iron beacon has been erected on the sunken rock, between Chetwode Islands and West Entry Point, Pelorus Sound, in place of the one carried away in September, 1868.

The beacon, which is painted red, stands twelve feet above "the rock, and will show about eight and a-half feet out of Avater at high water spring tides ; it is a single iron bar, stayed with chains, and surmounted by a square cage, two feet high, and eighteen ioches wide.

Change in Cape Recife Light io warn Ships of too near an approach to the Roman Sock

in Algoa, Bay.

On and after tho Ist December, 1861, a ray of red light will be shown from Cape Recifte Lighthouse, between a N. 39 deg. E. bearing and the shore northwards from the lighthouse.

Bearings are Magnetic, DIRECTIONS.

Vessels bound for Algoa Bay, after passing Cape Reciffe, should not open the red li.srht at the Cape until the harbor light upon the hill is seen (which will first show red on a N.W. bearing, and lead nine-tenths of a mile eastwards of the Roman, where a course lor the anchorage may be shaped with safety). As the Hill light cannot be seen from the Roman Rock, a ship is in safety so long as the light can be seen ; but as its southern extreme of visibility leads only two cables north of the rock, it is recommended that a course for the anchorage should not be shaped until the region of the red light is passed, and the Hill light shows white on a N.W. by W. bearing.

In beating in and out of the anclorage, the opening of the red light at either of the lighthouses will be a signal for vessels to tack when near the vicinity of the Roman Rock.

Commanders of vessels, and others navigating the east side of Port Phillip Bay and the South Channel, are hereby informed that the ship Hurricane now lies sunk in Capel Sound in thirty-four feet water.

The following bearings were taken from the wreck : — North Perch Black Buoy N.E.^E. Arthur's Scat Beacon E.jjS. Until further notice, or the wreck is removed, a red flag by day and a bright light by night will be exhibited from one of the mast-heads.