PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER
1. Ball and red flag at masthead— 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 hatf -flood the ret} Hag will be at mast-head. 3. Ball ttpon lower-mast cap with whito Hag — Ebb tide, bar dangerous. 4. No signal — Do npt attempt to take the bar. 5. Arm pointing to the right hand entei? ing from, seaward — More to the south. 0. 'Arm' pointing to the left hand entering fronj seaward — More to the North. 1 7. Ami ijp # n 4 4°>y» vitli ;%nal innkt— As you go. 8. When more than one vessel is crossing the bar the foremost vessel will be piloted by the signals, the others following in her wake. 9. The beacon bearing a polo with a red Hag and the flagstaff iv qne leads over the baT THOS. TUKNBULL.^, Master for W>'*uu>
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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 301, 17 December 1867, Page 2
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158PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 301, 17 December 1867, Page 2
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