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Title: Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Tatlow, A.H South African Railways. Publicity Dept
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: Durban, Natal : South African Railways Printing Works
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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lightto cover the shoal is shewn in thesame tower at a lower elevation, theshoal being about 16,000 feet distantfrom the lighthouse. The tower ispainted with red and white bands,and the lantern white. The doubleflashing light has an intensity of240,000 candles, and is visible for over20 nautical miles in clear weather.This light was exhibited for the firsttime on the 16th October, 1905. Thetwo small lighthouses, which formerlyindicated the shoal, have been takendown and utilised, one at Port Shep-stone and the other at Cape St. Lucia. The Aliwal Shoal was first re-ported in 1848 by a distinguishedmariner, Sir James Anderson, whoafterwards became Managing Directorof the Eastern Telegraph Company.During his first command he wasbringing immigrants to Natal, andkeeping close in shore to avoid thestrength of the Mozambique current,he noticed the seas breaking overthis shoal which was not shewn onthe chart ; he named the shoal afterhis vessel, the Aliwal. On May 20th, Green Point Lighthouse
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252 1884, the s.s. Nebo, laden with railway material, struck on or near the shoaland foundered, fortunately without loss of life. Shortly after the vessel musthave gone to pieces in heavy weather, 10,000 of the sleepers forming her cargobeing washed up on the foreshore in the vicinity of the Bluff. A later casualty, but not so serious, was that of the s.s. Maine, of NewYork, 7,914 tons net register, laden with coal, which struck the shoal on the20th February, 1905, arriving at the port a few hours later in a sinkingcondition. She was kept afloat by pumping, and lightening cargo, and wasbrought inside next day. After discharging the whole of her cargo she wasplaced on the floating dock at Durban, temporarily repaired, and returned toEngland in April. CROOKS SIDING is amidst sugar-verdured country, and the prettily-situated mill seen in the right-hand distance when crossing the lagoon to theUmpambanyoni makes an effective break in the landscape. SCOTTBURGH has been founded near the mout

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