Our country and its resources; . hts, buoys, beacons, wrecks andshoals. The Daily Memorandum comprisespublication of information affecting PHI OUR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES the immediate safe navigation ofvessels, which include the presenceof icebergs, Held ice, derelicts,wrecks, missing buoys, etc. This in-formation, in addition to being pub-lished in the Daily Memorandum, istelephoned or telegraphed to thevarious radio stations and sentbroadcast to all shipping four timesa day. The Hydrographic Bulletin, whichis issued weekly, totaled for the pastyear _!47,468 copies. It contains the vessels
Our country and its resources; . hts, buoys, beacons, wrecks andshoals. The Daily Memorandum comprisespublication of information affecting PHI OUR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES the immediate safe navigation ofvessels, which include the presenceof icebergs, Held ice, derelicts,wrecks, missing buoys, etc. This in-formation, in addition to being pub-lished in the Daily Memorandum, istelephoned or telegraphed to thevarious radio stations and sentbroadcast to all shipping four timesa day. The Hydrographic Bulletin, whichis issued weekly, totaled for the pastyear _!47,468 copies. It contains the vessels of the navy. It furnishesfree of cost to all other Governmentvessels such charts and publicationsas are requested, and the same ma-terial is sold at the cost of printingand paper to the merchant marineor the public in general. By international agreement theUnited States receives from all for-eign hydrographic oflices two copiesof all charts issued by them, andsupplies to them two copies of allcharts issued by it. Of all foreign. WIRE DRAG FOR SURVEYING THE SURFACE OF THE BOTTOM many items of interest to seafaringpeople and is an important memberof the publication family of thisoffice. One hundred and twenty-fourhook publications arc issued by theHydrographic Office, which are ac-cessary to the maritime include such volumes as Amer-ican Practical Navigator, List ofLights, Intel-national Code of SigDais, Line of Position Tables. AfricaPilot. British Island Pilot. Mediter-ranean Pilot, etc. The Hydrographic Office supplies all charts and navigational publicstioiis, whatever their character, to hydrographic offices the British Ad-miralty is. of course, the largest andmost efficient. The United Stateshas had to depend very largely uponcharts issued by the British Admi-ralty, not only for information butfor the actual charts themselves, sothat the number purchased in thepast year was 19,222. Altogetherat the end of the fiscal year theUnited states depended upon theBritis
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