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Aerial Board of Control Bulletin 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SNAEFELL JOKUL—White occulting light withdrawn for winter.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.

For the Board:

CATTERTHUN }

ST. JUST }

Lights.

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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° 15' N. 50° 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° 20' S. 18° 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

General Call (all Mark Boats) out for:

Jane Eyre, W. 6990 Port Rupert—City of Mexico

Santander, W. 5514 Gobi–desert—Manila

V. Edmundsun, E. 9690 Kandahar—Fiume

Broke for Obstruction, and Quitting Levels

VALKYRIE (racing plane), A. J. Hartley owner, New York (twice warned).

GEISHA (racing plane), S. van Cott owner, Philadelphia (twice warned).

MARVEL OF PERU (racing plane), J. X. Peixoto owner, Rio de Janeiro (twice warned).

For the Board:

LAZAREFF }

MCKEOUGH }

Traffic.

GOLDBLATT }