The Australian nautical almanac and coasters' guide : for the Southern and the Eastern coasts of New Holland / compiled by I. Wellbank

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Sydney : Printed and published by Reading and Wellbank, 1859-1868
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WELLBANK’S AUSTRALIAN NAUTICAL ALMANAC, 1864. 1 , 2
Advertising 3 , 4 , 6
THE AUSTRALIAN NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND Coasters' Guide, FOR THE SOUTHERN AND THE EASTERN COASTS OF NEW HOLLAND. 7
PREFACE. 9 , 10
GENERAL INDEX. 11
SAILING DIRECTIONS. EAST COAST. 11 , 12
SOUTH COAST. 12 , 13
PORT PHILLIP & ADJACENT HARBORS. 13
PORT PHILLIP-MISCELLANEOUS. 13
DESCRIPTIVE FLAGS 14
NUMERICAL FLAGS. 14
PILOT’S REPORT. 15
Australian Nautical Almanac, For the Year 1864, being Leap Year. CALENDAR FOR SYDNEY MEAN TIME. PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF THE CALENDAR, For the Year 1864. 17
ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA. 17
ECLIPSES. 17
POST OFFICE REGULATIONS. 18
POSTAGE RATES. LETTERS. 19
PACKETS AND BOOKS. 20
JANUARY—XXXI DAYS. 21
FEBRUARY—XXIX DAYS. 22
MARCH—XXXI DAYS. 23
APRIL—XXX DAYS. 24
NOVEMBER—XXX DAYS. 25
DECEMBER—XXXI DAYS. 26
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS, GREENWICH TIME, FOR THE YEAR 1864. ON TIME—AND ITS REDUCTION. 27 , 28
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—JANUARY XXXI DAYS. 29
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS—FEBRUARY XXIX DAYS 30
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—MARCH XXXI DAYS. 31
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—APRIL XXX DAYS. 32
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—MAY XXXI DAYS. 33
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—JUNE XXX DAYS. 34
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—JULY XXXI DAYS. 35
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—AUGUST XXXI DAYS. 36
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—SEPTEMBER XXX DAYS. 37
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—OCTOBER XXXI DAYS. 38
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—NOVEMBER XXX DAYS. 39
NAUTICAL EPHEMERIS.—DECEMBER XXXI DAYS. 40
TABLE FOR FINDING THE DISTANCE 41
RULE AND EXPLANATION. 41 , 42
TABLE I. 43
TABLE II. 44
TABLE III. 45
TABLE IV. 45
TABLE V 46
TABLE VI. 47
TABLE VII. 47
TABLE VIII. 48
TABLE IX. 49
TABLE X. 50
TABLE XI. 50
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 51 , 52
EXPLANATION OF TABLES. 53 , 54 , 55 , 56
PORT JACKSON HARBOUR REGULATIONS. CUSTOM’S NOTICE. 57 , 58 , 59 , 60
PILOTS AND RATES OF PILOTAGE. PILOTS. 60 , 61 , 62
PORT JACKSON. HARBOUR LIGHTS REGULATIONS. 63 , 64
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR PORT JACKSON. 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71
SINGALS 72
BROKEN BAY. 73 , 74 , 75
EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA. 75
PORT OF NEWCASTLE. PILOTS AND RATES OF PILOTAGE. 76 , 77
Port of Newcastle Tonnage Dues. 77 , 78
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR THE PORT OF NEWCASTLE. 78 , 81 , 82
PROPOSED NEW LIGHTS. 79
TONNAGE DUES. 79
PORT STEPHENS LIGHTHOUSE. 79
NEWCASTLE HARBOR. 83
TONNAGE DUES. 83
PORT STEPHENS LIGHTHOUSE. 83
Signals in Use at the Port of Newcastle. 85
EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA. 85
PORT STEPHENS. 85 , 86
PORT MACQUARIE. 87
EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA. 89
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR TRIAL BAY AND McLEAY RIVER. 89 , 90 , 91
CLARENCE RIVER. 91 , 92
RICHMOND RIVER. 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96
MORE TON BAY 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104
WIDE BAY. 104 , 105 , 106 , 107
Directions for the Northern Passage to Mary River, through Hervey Bay. 107 , 108 , 109 , 110
HERVEY BAY. 110 , 111 , 112 , 113
BAFFLE CREEK. 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117
BROAD SOUND 117
Pioneer River Sailing Directions:- 117 , 118
INSTRUCTIONS FOR VESSELS BOUND TO PORT DENISON OR PLACES ADJACENT. 118 , 119 , 120
PORT DENISON. 120
SOUTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA. 121 , 122 , 123 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 137 , 138 , 139 , 140 , 141 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 , 155 , 153
PORT WALLAROO. 153
PORT AUGUSTA. 153
NOTICES OF REEFS AND OTHER DANGERS LATELY DISCOVERED IN SPENCER’S GULF. 154
PORT OF WALLAROO AND INTENDED LIGHT. 155 , 156
INVESTIGATOR STRAITS AND GULF ST. VINCENT. 157 , 158 , 159 , 160
PORT ADELAIDE. 160 , 161 , 162 , 163 , 164 , 165 , 166
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR BACKSTAIRS PASSAGE, AND DESCRIPTION OF DANGERS ON SOUTH COAST OF KANGAROO ISLAND. 166 , 167 , 168 , 169 , 170 , 171
PORT WILLUNGA, ST. VINCENT’S GULF. 171 , 172
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING MORTAR AND ROCKET LINES FOR. SAVING LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. 172 , 173
Brief notice of Harbors, Rocks, Dangers, &c., on the South Coast of Kangaroo Island. 173 , 174 , 175
SOUTH COAST AUSTRALIA. CAPE JERVIS TO CAPE OTWAY. 175 , 176 , 177 , 178 , 179
THE MOUTH OF THE MURRAY. 179 , 180
DIRECTIONS PREPARATORY TO ENTERING THE CHANNEL OVER THE BAR. 180
DIRECTIONS TO MASTERS OF VESSELS. 180 , 181
TIDAL SIGNALS, SEA MOUTH OF THE RIVER MURRAY. 181 , 182 , 183
GUICHEN BAY. 184 , 185
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 186
SOUTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA. 187 , 188
SAILING DIRECTIONS, ETC., FOR MACDONNELL BAY. 188 , 189
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR PORTLAND BAY. 189 , 190
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR PORT FAIRY. 191
SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR PORT OF WARRNAMBOOL. 192 , 193 , 194
SOUTH COAST OF AUSTRALIA. THE APPROACH TO BASS’ STRAITS. 194
SOUTH COAST. SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR PORT PHILLIP. 195 , 196 , 197 , 198 , 199 , 200 , 201 , 202 , 203 , 204 , 205
DIRECTIONS FOR GEELONG. 205 , 206 , 207 , 208 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 212 , 213 , 214 , 215
EXTRACTS FROM ACTS OF COUNCIL 215 , 216 , 217
SIGNALS. 217
RATES OE PILOTAGE FOR PORT PHILLIP. 218
SAILING DIRECTIONS 219 , 220 , 221 , 222
BASS’ STRAITS. ALL BEARINGS ARE MAGNETIC 223 , 224 , 225
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF BUOYS 226 , 227 , 228 , 229 , 230 , 231
EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA. 231 , 232
CAPE HOWE TO TWOFOLD BAY. 232 , 235 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 239 , 240 , 241 , 242
TWOFOLD BAY. 234
SUNKEN ROCK OFF RED HEAD. 234
TREATMENT OF THE DROWNED. 243
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SAVING DROWNING PERSONS 244
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF LIGHTS ON THE COASTS AND WITHIN THE HARBORS OF AUSTRALASIA. 245 , 246 , 247
MAGNETIC BEARINGS AND DISTANCES 248 , 249 , 250
TABLE OF POSITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL HEADLANDS, &c., 251 , 252
[APPENDIX.] INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OPEN BOATS IN HEAVY SURFS AND BROKEN WATER. ON THE MANAGEMENT OF OPEN ROWING-BOATS IN A SURF; BEACHING THEM, &c. 253
RULES OF MANAGEMENT. I.—IN ROWING TO SEAWARD. 253 , 254
II.—ON RUNNING BEFORE A BROKEN SEA OR SURF, TO THE SHORE. 254 , 255 , 256 , 257
III.—BEACHING, OR LANDING THROUGH A SURF. 257
IV.-BOARDING A WRECK OR A VESSEL UNDER SAIL OR AT ANCHOR, IN A HEAVY SEA. 257 , 258
PRACTICAL HINTS 258 , 259 , 260
Advertising 261 , 262 , 263 , 264 , 265 , 266 , 267 , 268 , 269 , 270 , 271 , 272 , 273 , 274 , 275 , 276 , 277 , 278 , 279 , 280 , 281
Advertising 282 , 283 , 284 , 285 , 286 , 287 , 288 , 289 , 290 , 291 , 292 , 293 , 294 , 295 , 296 , 297 , 298 , 299 , 300 , 301 , 302 , 303

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