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In ten seconds the coach with its clerks clashed down to the receiving-caisson; the hostlers displaced the engineers at the idle turbines, and Tim, prouder of this than all, introduced me to the maiden of the photograph on the shelf. “And by the way,” said he to her, stepping forth in sunshine under the hat of civil life, “I saw young Williams in the Mark Boat. I’ve asked him to tea on Friday.”

AERIAL BOARD OF CONTROL BULLETIN

Aerial Board of Control

Lights

No changes in English Inland lights for week ending Dec. 18.

PLANETARY COASTAL LIGHTS. Week ending Dec. 18. Verde inclined guide-light changes from 1st proximo to triple flash–green white green–in place of occulting red as heretofore. The warning light for Harmattan winds will be continuous vertical glare (white) on all oases of trans-Saharan N. E. by E. Main Routes.

INVERCARGIL (N. Z.)–From 1st prox.: extreme southerly light (double red) will exhibit white beam inclined 45 degrees on approach of Southerly Buster. Traffic flies high off this coast between April and October.

TABLE BAY–Devil’s Peak Glare removed to Simonsberg. Traffic making Table Mountain coastwise keep all lights from Three Anchor Bay at least five shipping hundred feet under, and do not round to till beyond E. shoulder Devil’s Peak.

SANDHEADS LIGHT–Green triple vertical marks new private landing-stage for Bay and Burma traffic only.

SNAEFELL JOKUL–White occulting light withdrawn for winter.

PATAGONIA–No summer light south C. Pilar. This includes Staten Island and Port Stanley.

C. NAVARIN–Quadruple fog flash (white), one minute intervals (new).

EAST CAPE–Fog flash–single white with single bomb, 30 sec. intervals (new).

MALAYAN ARCHIPELAGO lights unreliable owing eruptions. Lay from Somerset to Singapore direct, keeping highest levels.

 

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Casualties

Week ending Dec. 18th.

SABLE ISLAND LANDING TOWERS–Green freighter, number indistinguishable, up-ended, and fore-tank pierced after collision, passed 300-ft. level 2 P.M. Dec. 15th. Watched to water and pithed by Mark Boat.

N. F. BANKS–Postal Packet 162 reports Halma freighter (Fowey–St. John’s) abandoned, leaking after weather, 46 deg. 15′ N. 50 deg. 15′ W. Crew rescued by Planet liner Asteroid. Watched to water and pithed by postal packet, Dec. 14th.

KERGUELEN MARK BOAT reports last call from Cymena freighter (Gayer Tong-Huk & Co.) taking water and sinking in snow-storm South McDonald Islands. No wreckage recovered. Addresses, etc., of crew at all A. B. C. offices.

FEZZAN–T. A. D. freighter Ulema taken ground during Harmattan on Akakus Range. Under plates strained. Crew at Ghat where repairing Dec. 13th.

BISCAY, MARK BOAT reports Carducci (Valandingham line) slightly spiked in western gorge Point de Benasque. Passengers transferred Andorra (same line). Barcelona Mark Boat salving cargo Dec. 12th.

ASCENSION, MARK BOAT–Wreck of unknown racing-plane, Parden rudder, wire-stiffened xylonite vans, and Harliss engine-seating, sighted and salved 7 deg. 20′ S. 18 deg. 41′ W. Dec. 15th. Photos at all A. B. C. offices.

Missing

No answer to General Call having been received during the last week from following overdues, they are posted as missing.

 

 Atlantis, W. 17630    Canton--Valparaiso
 

 Audhumla, W. 809     Stockholm--Odessa
 

 Berenice, W. 2206     Riga--Vladivostock
 

 Draco, E. 446       Coventry--Puntas Arenas
 

 Tontine, E. 3068     C. Wrath--Ungava
 

 Wu-Sung, E. 41776     Hankow--Lobito Bay