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12 fathoms 14 miles anchor anchorage bank Bass strait beacon bearing N.E. bight Breaksea island cape Leeuwin cape Northumberland channel cliffs coast trends cove creek danger depth direction distance east side eastern extends fathoms water feet high feet water Flinders Flinders island full and change gales half a mile harbour head high water Hummock inlet isle islet jetty King George sound land lies light lighthouse low water Macquarie harbour mangroves Michaelmas island mile broad mile northward mile off shore mile wide miles deep miles eastward miles from cape miles long moorings mount mount Gardner north-east point north-west north-westward northern point Lonsdale port Augusta projects quarter reef river rocky point round sandy beach Sandy point Shortland bluff south extreme south point south-east south-eastern south-eastward south-west southern southward Spencer gulf spit steer summit sunken rocks thence three-quarters tide Tipara vessel Wallaroo ward weather westerly western shore westward winds yards
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Page 218 - ... 1. The pyrotechnic light, commonly known as a blue light, every fifteen minutes, or " 2. A bright white light, flashed or shown at short or frequent intervals, just above the bulwarks, for about a minute at a time.
Page 441 - Officers of the Army, Navy, or Marines, being duly employed for the Prevention of Smuggling, and on Full Pay, or any Officer or Officers of...
Page 27 - ... you are to haul upon the rocket line until you get a tailed block with an endless fall rove through it. 3. Make the tail of the block fast to the mast about 15 feet above the deck, or if your masts are gone, to the highest secure part of the vessel...
Page 27 - ... into which the person to be hauled ashore is to get and be made fast. When he is in, and secure, one of the crew must be separated from the rest, and again signal to the shore as directed in Article 1 above.
Page 27 - A rocket or shot with a thin line attached will be fired across your vessel. Get hold of this line as soon as you can, and when you have secured it let one of the crew be separated from the rest, and, if in the day-time, wave his hat or his hand, or a flag or handkerchief; or if at night let a rocket, a blue light, or a gun be fired, or let a light be displayed over the side of the ship, and be again concealed, as a signal to those on shore : 2.
Page 446 - The existence of gales which are likely to endanger shipping will be signalled at the principal telegraph stations on the coast of New South Wales, in the following manner, viz. :— The signal...
Page 28 - Rocket Apparatus on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The system of signalling must be strictly adhered to ; and all women, children, passengers, and helpless persons should be landed before the crew of the ship.
Page 454 - ... with thick weather, commonly with rain; it veers gradually to the west, increasing in strength, and when it veers to the southward of that point, the weather begins to clear up ; at south-west the gale blows hardest, and the barometer rises...
Page 27 - Article 1 above. 4. As soon as the signal is seen on shore a hawser will be bent to the whip line, and will be hauled off to the ship by those on shore. 5. 'When the hawser is got on board, the crew should at once make it . fast to the same part of the ship as the...
Page 397 - ... vessels of all nations outfitting for or refitting from the fisheries, and all vessels arriving and sailing in ballast, or which may not break bulk, or only to such an extent as may be necessary...