Improved Code of Signals at Mount Victoria.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 366, 17 October 1849, Page 3

Improved Code of Signals at Mount Victoria.

"The following announcement appears in the Government Gazette of yesterday. The new code of signals to be brought into use on the Ist of November, will manifestly render much more complete the communication of various particulars of interesting intelligence respecting the vessels approaching our port. It would .greatly add however, to their usefulness and to the convenience of the inhabitants, if an arrangement were made (as could with little difficulty be done) for repeating the signals at the town. The descriptions are so plain as to need no verbal explanation. The numbers, it will be seen end at o,— -thus 10 will be signalled by the flag for 1 and that for 0, and so on through the numbers.

Harbour Master's Office, Auckland, 6th October, 1849. On and after the Ist of November, 1849, the Pilot's communications from vessels approaching this Port, their names, or numbers, and any other intelligence conveyed by means of Marryat's Signals, will be repeated at the Signal Station on Mount Victoria. The Flags which have hitherto been used to indicate the rig of vessels steering for the Port, and the signal of distress, will continue to be used ; but the following communications will be made by means of the Flags of Marryat's Code : — No. 1. Blue Square on a White Ground — the vessel is from New South Wales No. 2. Blue, White, and Blue (horizontally) — from Van Diemen's Land No. 3. White and Red (perpendicularly) — from South Australia No. 4. White Cross on a Blue Ground — from Western Australia No. 5. Red (Swallow Tailed) —from Wellington No. 6. Blue, Yellow, and Red— from Middle Island No. 7. Yellow Cross on a Red GroundCoastwise No. 8. Yellow Square on a Blue Ground — from England No. 9. Two Blue and Two Yellow Squares diagonally — from Scotland No. 0. Blue and Yellow (perpendicu?arly) — from Ireland No. 10. from the United States No. 12. .. South America No. 13. .. California No. H. .. Society Islands No. 15. . . Friendly Islands No. 16. . . Eejee Islands fj .» f New Caledonia m ' I'• * * {or New Hebrides No. 18. .. India No. 19. . . Indian Islands No. 20. . . Cape of Grood Hope No, 21.— Has Troops on board

No. 22. " Immigrants No. 23. " Gunpowder No. 24.— There is disease on board

No. 25. — A French Man-of-War No. 26. " Merchant Vessel No. 27.— An American Man-of-War No. 28. " Merchant Vessel No. 29.— A Whaler No. 30. — A Foreign vessel

The Ball at the yard-arm will be lowered a few feet to call attention to any of the foregoing communications. When the Ball is hauled down before the vessel indicated is inside the North Head, one or more of the following signals will be made, viz. (The vessel has gone A chequered flag at the ) [ntQ KauwaUj or other mast-head ( ad j ace nt Port. A Blue Pendant »••••• She has anchored. , TT77-. -n j * f She has passed out of A White Pendant j gi^ lt# _ , f The Governor is on Union Jack | boar(Jf Two Pendants A Vessel put back.

It is intended to have a short arm on. the signal-mast below the cross-tree, for the purpose of indicating distances, viz. — ("The sail in sight is Projecting horizon- < lieyond Tiri Tirimatally ( fcangi. , „_„ (She is inside Tiri TiAt an angle 045 | rimatangi Wlien drawn up to ( She is inside the reef the mast \ of Kangitoto Island.

Demands for Pilots will be' repeated by means of a Tricoloured Flag on a pole adjoining the signal-mast j and signals made to vessels entering or departing will be hoisted on the same. David Rough, Harbour Master.