ملف ١٩١٠/٢٥٢، الجزء ٢، "الخليج الفارسي: الإضاءة والطافيات؛ نظام الطافيات في شط العرب [و‎‎١‎٢‎٥] (٦٦٠/٢٥٦)

Knclosure to M.0722 to India Office,
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llth May 1911.
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The 5?ecretary
Sir,
With reference to Admiralty telegram No.63 of
the 8th instant, relative to the buoys and lights in the
Shatt-ai-*Arab river, be pleased to lay the following
remarks before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
2. - None of the buoys laid by the Turks are a danger
or impediment to navigation,
3. - With regard to the question of the sufficiency
of the British buoys, in themselves, for the purposes of
navigation, I would observe that the British buoy which
marked the inner bar, and which was missing, has not been
replaced by another British buoy, and the Turks have now
placed one in the position which it ought to occupy. I
may mention that the Committee on the Lighting and Buoyage
of the Persian Gulf, which reported in May 1909,
recommended the provision of an acetylene gas buoy as inner
bar buoy, to be similar to that narking the outer bar.
If an acetylene inner bar buoy be placed, the British
buoys will he sufficient and the lighting of the bar will
be satisfactory for the purposes of navigation.
4 . — At present the inner bar is hardly sufficiently
marked at night and navigation is difficult. It is not
impossible, however, to go in and out during the dark
hours, as many ships do so.
5 . - With regard to the approaches to the bar, it was
reoommended'that a lightship should be moored 4 or 5 miles
to
of the Admiralty.