PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER
1. Ball and red flag at mast-head— High water, take the bar. ' .■' -• 2. Ball and blue flag, half-mast—Half-flood, wait for tide ; when the bar may safely be attempted at half -flood the red flag will be at mast-head. ' 3. Ball ijpou lower-mas.t cap with white flag — Ebb tide, bar dangerous. • 4. No signal — Do not attempt to take the bar. 5. Arm pointing to the right hand entering from seaward — More to the south. 6. Arm pointing to the left hand entering from sea Avard — More to the North. 7. Ann up and down with signal mast — As you go. „ . 8. When more than one vessel is crossing the bar the foremost yessel will be piloted by the signals, the others following in her wake. 9. The beacon bearing a pole with a red flag and thic flagstaff in one leads over the bar. THOS. TURNBULL, Harbor Master for Westland.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 256, 3 September 1867, Page 2
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155PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 256, 3 September 1867, Page 2
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