5164 THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1867.

NOTICE TO MARINERS. near the Lucifer Shoals, on the coast of Wexford, about midway between Tuskar Rock lighthouse (No. 45.)—IRELAND—EAST COAST. and the Blackwater Bank light vessel, from which Alteration of Lights betioeen the Kish Bank Light will be exhibited & fixed red light. Vessel and the Tuskar Light. The vessel will have three masts and carry a globe at the mainmast head. The hull will be NOTICE is hereby given, that on or about the painted black with a white stripe, and the words 10th day of October, 1867, the following changes Lucifer Shoals in white letters on her sides. in the character and position of several of the lights will take place, and also additional lights By command of their Lordships, will be exhibited, between the Kish Bank light Geo. Henry Richards, Hydrographer. vessel and Tuskar light -on the East Coast of Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, Ireland. 30th August, 1867. Light Vessel on the Codling Bank. This Notice will affect the following Admiralty Charts :—The Irish Channel, No. 1824a ; Brattin A light vessel will be placed about 3^ miles S. E. by S. from the south end of the Codling Head to Wexford, No. 2049 ; Wexford to Wicklow, Bank, from which will be exhibited a red revolving No. 1787 ; Wexford Harbour, No. 1772 ; Wick- low Roadstead, No. 52 ; and Wicklow to Dublin, light, attaining its greatest brilliancy every twenty No. 1467. Also, the Sailing Directions for the seconds. Coast of Ireland, Part 1, pages 87 to 90. The vessel will have three masts, and carry a globe over a half globe at her mainmast head. The hull will be painted black with a white stripe, and the words Codling Bank in white letters on NOTICE TO MARINERS. her sides. (No. 46.)—MEDITERRANEAN—TUSCAN ARCHI- Light Vessel of Wicklow Swash. PELAGO. The "Wicklow Swash light will be discontinued Fixed Light on Africa Rock. and the vessel removed. THE Italian Government has given notice, Wicklow Head Light. that from the 15th day of September, 1867, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse recently The Wicklow Head Light will be changed erected on the Africa rock, situated 10 miles from a fixed white light as at present, to an inter- westward of Monte Christo island, in the Tuscan mittent white light, showing alternately, ten seconds Archipelago,- on the west coast of Italy. bright and three seconds dark. The light will be a fixed red light, elevated 56 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear Light Vessels on Arklow Bank. weather should be seen from a distance of 11 1. A light vessel will be placed about 3£ miles miles. S. E. by E. % E. from the north end of the Arklow The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by Bank, from which two fixed white lights will be lenses, of the fourth order. exhibited ; one on the mainmast elevated 38 feet The lighthouse is built in the centre of the rock, above the level of the sea ; the other, on the fore- and on Mitchell's system, with iron buttresses, in mast elevated 22 feet above the level of the sea. lat. 42° 21i' N., long. 10° 4' East of G-reenwich. The vessel will have three masts with a globe By command of their Lordships, on her fore and main mast heads. The hull will Geo. Henry Richards, Hydrographer. be painted black with a white stripe, and the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, words Arklow Bank North in white letters on her 2nd September, 1867. sides. This Notice will affect the following Admiralty 2. The light vessel, which now marks the south Charts :—Mediterranean, General, Nos. 2158 and end of the Ai-klow Bank, will be moved about 27184; Piombino to Civita Vecchia, No. 158; 2 miles S.S.E. £ E. from her present position, and and Corsica island, No. 1131. her light will be changed from a white revolving light attaining its greatest brilliancy every half minute, as at present, to a white revolving light attaining its greatest brilliancy every minute. NOTICE TO MARINERS. The vessel will have three masts and carry a half globe over a globe at her mainmast head. (No. 47.)—UNITED STATES.—VIRGINIA. The hull be be painted black with a white stripe, Fixed Light on Assateague Island. and the words Arklow Bank South in white letters on her sides. THE United States Government has. given notice, that from the 1st day of October, 1867, Light Vessel on Blackioater Bank. the light on Assateague Island will be re-esta- blished. The light vessel, which at present marks the The light will be a fixed white light, elevated north end of the Blackwater Bank, will be moved 150 feet above the level of the sea, and in clear about 1^ miles East of her present position ; the weather should be seen from a distance of 19 character of her light—-fixed white—will remain, miles. as at present. The illuminating apparatus is dioptric or by The vessel will have three masts and carry two lenses, of the first order. globes at her mainmast head instead of one, as at The lighthouse is in the same position as before, present. The hull will be painted black with a about 2 miles from the south-west point of the white stripe, and the words Blackwater Bank in Island. white letters on her sides. The tower is brick, natural colour, and 140 feet high. Its position is in lat. 37° 54|' N., Light Vessel on the Lucifer Shoals. long. 75° 21' West of Greenwich. Notice is also given, that on or about the From the centre of the Winter Quarter shoal 1st day of May, 1868, a light vessel will be placed the light bears "W". by S. i S., ll£ miles, and from