PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER
1. Ball and red (lag at mast-head — High water, take the bar. 2.. Ball and blue flag, half-mast—Half-flood, wait fpr tide ; when the bar may safely be attempted at half-llood the red flag will be at mast-head. 3. Ball upon lower-mast cap . with, white flag— Ebb tide, bar dangerous. 4. No signal — Do not attempt to take the bar. o. Arm pointing to the right hand entering from seaward — More to the South. 6. Arm pointing to the left hand entering from seaward — More to the North. 7. Arm up and down with signal mast — 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. TJie beacon hcaijng a pole wit!) a red Hag and the flagstaff in one leads over the bar. Blue pennant over white— Steamer from the south. White pennant over blue Steamer fronj the north. THOS. TURNBULL, Harbor Master for Westland.
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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 345, 31 March 1868, Page 2
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169PILOT SIGNALS FOR GREY RIVER Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 345, 31 March 1868, Page 2
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