The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Dock-office, Liverpool, Sept. 5, 1839.
(ALL BEARINGS BY COMPASS )
THE TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL DOCKS and
HARBOUR DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that
the following Changes in the LIGHTING, BEACONING,
and BUOYING of the Northern Approaches to this Pbrt
will take place on and after the Night of THURSDA , Octo-
ber 10th, 1839, viz. ;
CROSBY LIGHTHOUSE.—A Ne Lip Tower has
been erected about a mile and a half S .of Formby
Lighthouse towards Crosby Point. TI ight therefrom
will be exhibited for the first time on t a Evening of the
above date, and continued every night from Sunset to Sun-
rise.

The Light in this Tower will be Stationary, of a Red
Colour, elevated 96 feet above the Sea at half-tide level, and
will be visible between the points of S.W. by W. W. and
N. by W. W., which limits will indicate respectively when
a Vessel is westward of Mad Wharf, and when she ought to
shape her fairway course up Crosby Channel.
THE FORMBY LIGHT-VESSEL will be moved one-
fifth of a mile S. by E. A E. of her present berth into 30 feet
at low water. Her application through the half-tide Swatch-
way, when brought in a line with the Rock Lighthouse, will
remain as heretofore, and when brought in a line with the
New Crosby Shore Light, will lead in from Seaward through
the New Cut. now called Victoria Channel, on a course of
S.E. by E. E.
CROSBY LANDMARK.—In order to render the line
of leading objects into the Victoria Channel more available
in hazy weather, or accidental absence of the Light Vessel,
a Beacon, surmounted by a Black Ball, has been erected on
the low-water shore, towards Crosby Point, in line of Light-
Vessel and Lighthouse.
THE BELL BEACON will be shifted a little more than
of a mile N. by E. E. of her present station into 39 feet
at low water, with the Formby Light-Vessel and Crosby
Shore Light in one, and bearing from the North-West
Light-Ship N.E. a E. 4/ miles, indicating the fairway of the
Channel.
In 10 feet at low wa-
V. 1. Red (Can) ter bearing
from ihe"
°LIN' W SOL of Bell Beacon S.E.
Victoria Channel. E. aof a mile.
• In 11 feet at low wa.
V. I. Black (Nun) ter, bearing from the
on N. E. Spit of Bell Beacon E.S.E.
Victoria Channel. + E., a little more
than of a mile.
V. 2. Red (Can) In 12 feet at low wa-
on S.W. Spit of
ter, bearing from V.
t
Victoria Channel. . ed S.E. E.
of a mile.
In 12 feet at low wa-
V. 2. Black (Nun) ter, bearing from V.
on S.E. Spit of Black S.E. by E. I.
Victoria Channel. af• a mile.
Will be altered to V. 3. Red (Can), and
shifted about A of a mile E. / S. of its
>present position into 20 feet at low wa-
ter, bearing from Formby Light-Vessel
W.N.W. / W. I of a mile.
Will be altered to V. 4. Red (Can, with
Perch,) and shifted a mile S.E. of its
-present position in 17 feet at low water,
bearing from Formby Light-Vessel S.W.
S. about 1-sth of a mile.
an) will be altered to V. 3., remaining in

These Buoys will
bear N.E. &S.W.
of each other ra-
ther more than,
of a mile apart,
the width of the
Channelentrance.

These Buoys bear
from each other
N.E. I N., and
S.W. 4- S. of a
mile apart.

N. 2. Red (Can)
on North Edge of
North Burbo.

N. 3. Red (Can,
with Perch,) on
North Edge of

West Middle.

N. 3. Black (N
its present position.
A NUN BUOY, Quartered Red and White, and Markel
N. Fy., will be placed in the position at present occupied by
N. 1. Red (Can), for the guidance of such Mariners and
Pilots as may choose to take the New Channel, of which it
will indicate the fairway.
C. 1. Black (Nun), on Will be moved 1 cable N.W. by
N.W. Spit of Formby W. into 20 feet at low water,
Middle Bank (Taylor's bearing from Formby Light-Ves-
Buoy). sel East s of a mile.
On the foregoing alterations taking place, Formby Shore
Light will be discontinued, and the Buoy N. 1. Black will
be taken away; but Formby Lighthouse will remain as an
object, in conjunction with the N.W. Mark, for a leading
line into the Formby Channel by day.
The Light-Ships will, from the above date, be distin-
guished by carrying Balls at their Mast-heads, instead of
Flags. The Formby Light-Ships to be painted Red, the
North-West Light- Ships Black.

POINT LYNAS LIGHT.—In order to effect a distinc-
tion between this Light and that of the Skerries, Point
Lynas Light, which has hitherto been known to Mariners as
a Fixed Light, will, on and after the Night of FRIDAY,
November Ist, 1539, be changed to a Flashing Light, becom-
ing instantaneously obscured to the Mariner at intervals of
Ten Seconds, and remaining so obscured Two Seconds.
By order of the Committee,
WM. LORD, Marine Surveyor.