notice · 1861

Comprehensive official 'Sailing Directions for Port Phillip, Portland, Port Fairy and Warrnambool' for the Victorian coast, published as a supplement to the Victoria Government Gazette (No. 32, 4 March 1861) by order of ROBERT S. ANDERSON, Commissioner of Trade and Customs. Authored by CHARLES FERGUSON (Chief Harbor Master of Victoria) for Port Phillip, Melbourne and Geelong; JAMES FAWTHROP for Portland Bay; and J. B. MILLS for Port Fairy and Warrnambool. Covers approaches, the Heads, channels, buoys, lighthouses, tidal and pilot signals, quarantine, gunpowder and port regulations, plus magnetic bearings (Ferguson) and 'The Winds on the Coast of Victoria' (Professor Neumayer). Appends the Royal National Life-Boat Institution's instructions for managing open boats in surf, rescuing drowning persons and resuscitation (after Dr Marshall Hall). Supersedes the 1854/1857 directions, now cancelled.

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Victoria Government Gazette, No. 32, 4 March 1861.

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