Buoyage

It has not been considered necessary to make any special inspection of particular ports or rivers in the United Kingdom, the greater number of the Committee being already more or less familar with the buoyage of our coasts.

There is no description available of the vessel, which served here until it was replaced by buoyage marking these channels .

In the absence of a route leading from seaward , the conventional direction of buoyage generally follows a clockwise direction around land masses.

For the more important channels the marking is done principally by means of buoys, and this makes the buoyage systems of very special importance in North America, and accounts for the large number in proportion to the area considered; more than half of the buoys of the world are in North America.

This chart will be affected by the introduction of a new system of buoyage (IALA System A) scheduled for implementation between April and August 1977.

In some charted waters, obsolescent buoyage ( Uniform System of Buoyage ) may still be encountered .

The Corporation of the Trinity House supply the Humber with buoys and lights, and license pilots; all vessels pay buoyage, and a primage is paid on the cargoes from foreign vessels; and this Corporation also appoint the dock and harbour-masters.

Another great drawback for ships coming here is the heavy tonnage dues which are laid on every outgoing ship and the heavy buoyage tax levied on the steamers.